'Kendi' Water-Dispensing Vessel with Decoration of Flowers, Rocks, and Birds

Terracotta

Fritware

Pale yellow clay, black paint

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over a thin coating of white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns, Huangpuzhen, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Pale yellow glass

Steel

Dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters

White stoneware, high fire soda glaze, iron oxide, oribe blue glaze rim, low fire gold luster

Terracotta

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Terracotta

Gray earthenware, the surface blackened and burnished before firing