Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight

Terracotta

Bronze

Sterling silver

Silver

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue and purple glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing

White ware: white stoneware with clear, pale celadon-type glaze

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.

Terracotta

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cast bronze with heavy incrustations of green and russet patina

Gray earthenware with openwork decoration and with traces of cold-painted red and white pigments

Earthenware