Plate with Spider Web, Plant, and Insect Design

Terracotta

Terracotta

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with rust brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.

Monochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze pink enamel; the base with overglaze red mark reading "Da Qing Tongzhi nian zhi" within a double square on the base

Terracotta

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration lightly brushed in white slip

Terracotta

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; swith purious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zao"

Grayish white jadeite with emerald green markings

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Qingbai-type ware: molded porcelain with virtually colorless glaze