Compressed Globular Jar with Molded Decoration

Canton ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Silver

Pale blue-green glass

Pressed glass

Sterling

Buff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal

Silver, fruitwood, ivory

Ceramic

Hard-paste porcelain with feldspathic glaze

Black earthenware with incised and openwork decoration, the surface burnished before firing. Middle and Lower Yellow River area; Shandong and Jiangsu provinces; possibly from Shandong province.