FIVE SHALLOW BOWLS FROM THAN HOA

White stoneware with clear glaze over applique molded decoration

Cast bronze with green russet patina; with an inscription on the interior

Porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration carved in the thick coating of underglaze white slip

Rhinoceros horn

Light gray stoneware with appliqué handles and dark brown glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion dressed with dark purplish brown slip. Probably from the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

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

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: molded grayish white earthenware with lead-fluxed amber-yellow and emerald-green glazes

Cloudy, pale greenish white nephrite

Ceramic

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze