Small Covered Ovoid Jar, the Jar with Short, Flaring Neck, the Lightly Domed Cover with Small, Lotus-Bud-Shaped Knob

Turned bronze

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with three molded appliqué decorative elements, the ewer coated with olive-toned celadon glaze over a thin coat of white slip, the appliqué elements further splashed with caramel glaze. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior

Tang white ware: white stoneware with clear glaze

Turned bronze

Silver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Earthenware with cold-painted decoration

Lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze (now much degraded) over a white slip ground on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior

Sancai ("three color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splashed clear glaze on the lip and exterior, the glazes slightly degraded

Burnished black stoneware

Silvered bronze