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Izumo ware ceramic tea caddy (without its lid). A small globular form on a flat spirally cut unglazed base showing fine light grey body. Thin translucent extremely shiny brown glaze, dark at the lip, with a broad splash of pale green-white flowing down the side, where the glaze stops in an even line short of the base.
Clay bottle consisting of a globular body with flat base, narrow neck with flared rim connected to shoulder by flat handle. Light brown surface with painted decoration in various states of preservation. Top of rim decorated with concentric circles; handle has zigzag pattern; shoulder decorated with tongues. Above and below figured scene are borders of horizontal lines; bottom of base in concentric circles. Figured scene consists of a male siren with spread wings in center, facing right, with anatomical details. Body primarily dark brown with red-brown areas on wings, throat, and breast. Leading edge of wings decorated with circles of red-brown. To right of siren is a water fowl, facing left with details. To left is a possible third figure. Between figures and in empty spaces are traces of dots and rosettes.
Clay bottle consisting of a globular body with a narrow neck, flat disk like rim. Sides of rim are slightly concave; flat handle connects rim and body at rear. Surface is light brown and slightly leached. Top of rim is decorated with a dark brown circle. Body decorated in quatrefoil pattern in front of a central vertical oval with a line through it; arrow head shaped designs pointing to either side and are filled in with black crosshatching. Radiating from central oval are four elongated teardrop designs; two projecting upwards, two downwards in shades of brown. Bottom decorated in simplified blossom pattern between teardrops projecting from front. Body below handle designed in dark brown consisting of intersecting lines.
Clay jug consisting of a globular body with a narrow neck and flaring rim. Flat basket-handle mounted vertically on rim and small flaring spout on body in line with handle rising at an angle. Clay is cream in colour with a light cream slip and decorated in brown paint that becomes reddish when thinly applied. Detailing consists of a line along the middle of handle; neck and side of rim painted; below neck are four horizontal lines then a reserve band decorated with teardrop shaped blobs becoming very light at times; below this are three horizontal lines then a large reserve area with three horizontal at foot. Spout-body junction decorated with a dark circle.
A green miniature container shaped like a peeled tangerine with fifteen lobes and wide mouth. The body is a buff stoneware with green flaking glaze. The indented base is glazed. A set of inked numbers is written on the underside.
Broken, reassembled and repaired round bowl with a foliated rim of eight lobes and unglazed flat foot. The cavetto is decorated with a moulded design of eight panels each containing a motif although this is only faintly discernible. Glaze appears to be thickest just below the rim both on the inside and outside. Centre has some grit incorporated. Exterior surface is plain. Inked number on the foot.
Round shallow dish broken, reassembled, and repaired. There are several visible cracks and one large missing piece at rim. The rim consists of eight foliated bracket-shaped lobes. This foliated effect echoes in the cavetto design of eight moulded double panels. Each panel contains emblems which are faintly discernible. The exterior surface is plain. Glaze is thickest around the rim. Centre has grit and sand integrated into the glaze. The foot ring is unglazed and shallow and there is a set of inked letter and numbers on the underside.
Miniature blue and white bowl with a very slightly everted rim and a bevelled foot which is contiguous with base. Ring of underglazed blue chrysanthemums and wind blown leaves around the rim. Body is thinly glazed and base is unglazed. An adhesive with inked letter and numbers on the underside.
A miniature blue and white bowl with everted rim and a prominent foot which is squarely cut. The exterior surface is decorated with two sprays of chrysanthemums with spiral centres and windblown leaves. A single chrysanthemum adorns the centre while a leaf-like motif circles the interior rim. All decorations are in underglazed blue. The foot ring is shallow and bevelled. The centre of the bottom raises to a peak. Left unglazed, the foot ring and underside reveal a buff-coloured clay body.
A ceramic bowl that has a steeply rounded form with an everted lip. The white porcelaneous body is grey-brown with iron specks where fired. There is a high foot which has an unglazed foot rim. The base is conical, and glazed. Interior has a floral motif in the centre, sketchily painted underglazed in bright blue, and two blue lines at junction of bottom and wall, one just below lip. Exterior has six separate, freely painted but similar, scrolling leaf, petal and vine motifs in bright underglaze blue evenly distributed around bowl. The thick grey-white glaze has numerous bubbles with iron specks and bare spots and pools into thicker white over painting, greying the blue tone.