Wooden Stand for Leaf-shape Cup

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, carved, and applique decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; swith purious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zao"

Light gray stoneware with incised decor, the surface burnished. Anyang type.

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date

Proto-porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Export blue-and-white ware, imitation kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark of a single Chinese character reading "yu" (jade) within a double circle on the base

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing. From the Ciyaobao kilns, Lingwu county, Ningxia Huizu Autonomous Region.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Cast bronze with gray-green patina; with a five-character dedicatory inscription cast on vessel floor

Export blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian xhi" within a double circle on the base

Gray stoneware with blackened surface