Mask depicting noh face: large protruding nose, golden bulbous eyes, heavy cream-coloured eyebrows and moustache. Has incised forehead wrinkles and hair lines, eye and nose openings. All on brown face. Inscription inside.

Container with lid depicting social activities with groups of men and women wearing kimonos (yellow, green and red); circular abstract designs. Richly gilt; two short protruding handles on sides each have a hole in them. Inscription on underside of base. Lid has design cut out of top.

Small beige clay jar with carved panels. The body is round with a flat base. There is a short stout neck opening to a wide rounded rim. The body is divided into four panels; two panels are smooth while two are rough. There are traces of green on the inside the rim.

Glazed, red clay jug with a hemispherical base, a conical shape neck and a semi-circular handle. There is a design on shoulder of two horizontal stripes, diamonds with dot in center and loops to neck. There are two stripes on neck.

Pot made of red clay with rounded base and shoulder and a vertical lip around the mouth. Decorated with an incised semi-circule and linear design around the mouth. Black discolourations as a result of firing.

Red-brown round pot with a spherical shape on the base. Three circular ridges are around the sides with incised semi-circles above.

Red-brown round pot with a spherical shape on the base. Three decorative concave knobs are on the top with a circular handle in the middle of the top and a pointed spout. The upper portion around these decorative knobs and spout has a main design that consists of incised line patterns around the top which are painted red and black.

Women's head, with typical woman's coiffure, on circular base. The eyes are slitted horizontally with slightly rounded eyelids. The eyebrows are curved and slightly upraised. There is a nose, a prim mouth, chin and pinched ears. The hair consists of conical-like protrusions extending outward from the head. The neck has three protruding bulges. The base is two-stepped.

One white earthenware fragment with blue and gray colored glaze iridescent, there may be an intentional patterning to the blue glaze that is only visible under high magnification. The glaze is crazing. Elisa Hedin 05/16/2011

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