Scholar's Knife (Xiao)

Ink and color on carved wood

Enameled porcelain: assembled porcelain elements, some with relief decoration, and with additional decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

Ink on carved wood

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Zhengde nian zhi" within a double square on the base

Wood

'Qingbai' ware: molded porcelain with pale bluish glaze

Ink on carved wood

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within double bowstring lines at the end of the handle

Soapstone; six-character mark in seal script on the base reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi'

Ink on carved wood

Pale greenish-white nephrite; brush head made of fur