Dish with scholar and a monk in a landscape

Terracotta

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the rim banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Sui'an shi yong"(Palace of Double Glory, used in the Room of Ease and Contentment) inscription incised on base at a later date

Enameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Terracotta, white ground

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

Light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze; recovered in the Philippines

Cast bronze

Wood

Cast bronze