LARGE PLATE, UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND WHITE

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from a kiln at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing

Carved rhinoceros horn

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

Carved rhinoceros horn

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

Brick red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) incised on base; "Jianfu gong Jingsheng zhai louxia yong" (Palace of Established Happiness, used in the Studio of Esteemed Excellence, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date; metal repairs

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing