Circular Plate with Decoration of a Flowering Thistle

Ceramic

Buff earthenware with cord-marked, incised, and modelled decor

Buff earthenware with decoration painted in black and burgundy slips, the surface burnished before firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Silver, gilt

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

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

Ceramic

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Terracotta

Pale blue glass

Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with brownish black (chromium, iron, and manganese) and blue (cobalt) under clear alkali glaze

Olive-green glass