Ritual Food Vessel (Gui)

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the Jian kilns at Jianyang, Fujian province.

Carved rhinoceros horn, with incised seal mark reading 'Sheng Fugong zuo' on the base

Pale greenish white nephrite

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Partial gift of the Walter C. Sedgwick Foundation and partial purchase through the Ernest B. and Helen Pratt Dane Fund for Asian Art

Tang white ware: white stoneware with clear glaze

Longquan celadon ware: fine grained, light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

Cast bronze

Cast bronze with decoration inlaid in hseet gold, silver, and sheet silver

Splashed Jun ware: off-white stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration