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Alabastron made of buff, fine-grained hard-fired clay. Thin, matte, black paint. Rounded bottom with slight tip in the centre; pyriform body with one small vertical handle attached below rim; broad everted rim. Decoration consists of a nine-petal rosette on the base centred on the bottom and horizontal bands on body. In the upper half is a stippled zone and immediately beneath the rim there are vertical strokes. Two concentric circles on top surface of rim.
Figure of a boar consisting of red clay with a cream slip. Slightly grainy clay with a few white limestone particles and dark grits. Traces of dark grey/black paint on top. Solid figure with four short stumps for legs and protruding ears. There is a small circular hole on the back of the boar.
A pair (parts a-b) of matching buckles which interlock. Each is circular with a convex front surface. The back is silver with an attached slightly-raised bar, 4 cm. long. At the edge of each buckle, there is a loop in the shape of a flattened 'u'. The loop on one piece (part a) is 1.4 cm. wide, and is bent at almost ninety degrees. The loop on the other piece (part b) is 0.7cm. wide, and is bent under to form a hook. The front surface of each is covered in shiny dark blue enamel, on which, there is painted a dragon in gold with touches of white and red.
Black glazed cup made of orange-red, very fine-grained clay; black glaze is quite thick, semi-lustrous on exterior, matte on interior. Broad reserved ring on base. Low ring foot, shallow curving walls with tiny stepped ledge below lip, plain rim, two vertical ledge handles with small protruding lug at top outside edge.
Red-brown clay jug, fired to a grey-buff on the surface. Coarse-grained and full of small light and dark impurities, porous. Flat base, body rounded in lower half where it reaches its maximum diameter then becomes straight walled as it narrows to rim. No neck; plain tall rim, slightly everted and flattened on top. Flat vertical strap handle attached to rim and lower portion of body. Lower half of body bears broad shallow ridges.
Human figure made of grey/brown clay, fully modelled. Figure represents a man seated on the ground with hair in a top-knot, painted black with one arm raised, the other resting on his knee. Dressed in loose shirt and rolled-up trousers with bare feet. Beside him is bundle of sticks or straw.
Round, lipped, hexagonal jar; each side has a stamped floral design; curvilinear design incised on shoulder; monochrome green glaze on exterior surfaces; hexagonal indented base; irregularly applied brown slip on interior surface.
Tall circular jar, wider at shoulder than base; short narrow neck and thickened lip. Three perpendicular calligraphy figures on one side; five on the other. Small paper sticker on mouth reads 'Made in Japan'. Cork on bottom.
One-wick oil lamp made from fairly fine-grained buff clay with a reddish-brown slip. The body is circular as viewed from above, has a rounded shoulder, and walls that taper inwards to a flat base. The top centre is concave with a filling hole set slightly off-centre. There is a vertical pierced disc handle with two shallow incised grooves, the short, rounded nozzle is set off from the body by a faint transverse line, and the flat base is delineated by a faint circle with a trace of a plant impression in the middle.
Figure's head composed of red-brown, coarse-grained clay with a light brown-green lead glaze. The figure has a broad forehead and overhanging eyebrows and wears a turban-like headcloth.