Object Stand for Hand Cup in the Form of a Chimera with a Book on its Back, the Chimera Emerging from Waves

Qingbai ware: porcelain with sky-blue glaze over mold-impressed decoration; the underglazed rims originally bound with metal. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze green and black enamels; with overglaze red enamel mark reading Tongzhi nian zhi within a double square on the base

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Cast bronze

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.

Earthenware with traces of slip-painted decoration

Jingdezhen 'Guan'-type ware: porcelain with crackled, grayish blue, 'guan'-type glaze; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters on the base

Medium gray earthenware with decoration applied with a cord-wrapped paddle; with impressed seal at shoulder

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Black earthenware