Ovoid Jar with Short Neck and Everted Rim and with Decoration of Bird and Fruiting Peach Branches

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 6 (liu) inscribed inside the footring before firing

Mottled buff and olive-green nephrite, dimly translucent at the edges

Pale greenish white nephrite

Enameled blue-and-white ware: molded porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and yellow and red enamels over reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading 'Da Ming Longqing nian zao' within a double circle on the base

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

Jizhou ware: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the glaze with kiln transmutations. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cast bronze with copper inlay

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Numbered-Jun-type ware: light gray stonware with variegated lavender-blue glaze, the glaze shading to olive brown where thin

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide

Qianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze

Biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base