"Li" Tripod Food Vessel with Cord-Marked Decor

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Jizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

White stoneware with appliqué handle and feet and with dark brown glaze on the exterior and clear glaze on the interior. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Earthenware with impressed decoration

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base; “Ying tai Lan shi yong” (Ocean Terrace, used in the Orchid Room) inscription incised on base at a later date

Monochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze butterscotch-yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle beneath an overglaze turquoise blue enamel on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels and applique molded handle mounts and knob; with bronze bail handles

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Dongkhe ware: off-white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over white slip

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded and appliqué decoration. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

Carved wood, the knob made of semi-precious stone