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

Silver

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground. Probably from the Guantai kilns, near Handan, Hebei province.

Silver, ivory

Cast bronze; with inscription on the vessel floor and interior of cover

Ceramic

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Metal

Silver

Gray stoneware with dark brown glaze

Terracotta

Silver

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration