Ritual Wine Vessel (Zhi)

Mottled green and white jadeite, the stone of Burmese origin

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover

Cizhou-type cut-glaze ware: ivory white stoneware with olive brown glaze, the decoration cut into the glaze before firing

Cloudy, pale greenish white nephrite

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Gray earthenware

Carved rhinoceros horn

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 4 (si) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong jingqi xuan yong" (Palace of Double Glory, used in the Pavilion of Serene Repose) inscription incised on base at a later date

Black earthenware

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding