Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blosson and Three Phoenixes in Flight

Plaster

Cloudy, pale greenish white nephrite

Monochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Enamel

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Terracotta, with blackened rim, and dark streak across middle

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Terracotta with dark brown slip used for decoration and for interior of cup, handle

Terracotta

Terracota

Metal

Terracotta