PHOENIX AND LION

Molded dark gray toneware with bluish gray glaze

Gilt bronze

Limestone with polychromy and gilding

Gilt bronze with traces of black pigment (black lacquer?) in the hair

Silver, with Han-style inscription lightly incised on proper right leg

Yue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised details. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Lead-glazed ware: molded, brick-red earthenware with degraded, opalescent, emerald-green, lead-fluxed glaze

Gilt bronze

Dehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with applique elements under ivory-hued glaze and attached horse hair (simulating the figure's beard); with spurious impressed seal mark reading "Zhang Shou Shan" on the back

Sandstone with traces of pigment; from Tianlongshan Cave 3, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province

Stone