Small Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Leaf Decoration

Hard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over carved and combed decoration; the rim banded with metal

Enamel

Buff stoneware with opaque mottled light blue glaze. Made in northeastern Korea, probably in Hoeryŏng-gun, North Hamgyŏng province.

Metal

Off white (or very light gray) stoneware with ash coating and natural ash glaze; with signature reading "Ken" inscribed on the base before firing

Silver, gilt

Ceramic

Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Terracotta

Silver