One of Ten Miscellaneous Fragments of Painted Funerary Ware

Blackened gray earthenware

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware body with grayish celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns, Zhejiang province

Gray earthenware

Low-fired gray earthenware blackened with a black slip over a ground layer of whitish slip, the surface burnished before firing

Ceramic

Painted funerary ware: gray earthenware with cold-painted red pigments on a white gesso ground.

Blackened dark gray earthenware

Blackened gray earthenware

Ru ware: light gray stoneware body with pale bluish celadon glaze, the glaze with white to buff cloudiness due either to under firing or to burial (in the waste heap at the kiln site). From the Ru kilns, Henan province

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with pale yellow glaze over carved decoration

Dark gray stoneware with underfired glaze