Small Pear-Form Vase with Foliated Flaring Rim and Scrolling Volutes and with Decoration of Blossoming Peony Plants

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamel decoration, and gilding

Stoneware, salt-glazed

Terracotta

Cast bronze

Terracotta

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the rim repaired with gold lacquer. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Onda ware: light gray stoneware with pale olive glaze over brush-applied white slip enlivened with chatter marks on the exterior

Silver

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with bluish-black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-oxide

Shell with gilt bronze fitting

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze iron oxide

Fritware with underglaze painting