FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

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

Ceramic

Ceramic

Black earthenware

Tang white ware: white stoneware with applique handles and pale celadon glaze

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration

White earthenware

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Tianqi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Proto Porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze Proto Porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze