The Bodhisattva Simhanâda ("One Who Roars Like a Lion") Seated on a Lion

Gilt bronze and rock crystal

Gilt bronze with blue and orange pigments highlighting the deity's hair and the lion's mane respectively

Stone, perhaps steatite, with grayish brown coating and dark brown spots

Bronze and enamel

Grayish white nephrite with dark brown mottling

Enameled porcelain, "famille jaune" type: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, green, and aubergine enamels

Pale greenish white nephrite, with dated inscription of the Qianlong Emperor on the reverse

Cast bronze with localized areas of cold gilding and red and blue pigments

White nephrite shading to caramel brown over much of the surface

Dehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with ivory-hued glaze

Molded porcelain with pale bluish glaze