BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, TYPE KU

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Reddish buff earthenware with appliqué handles and cord-impressed decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu Qinghai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over trailed ribs of porcelain slip

Earthenware with green lead glaze

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lower portion dressed with dark brown slip.

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze