Ritual Wine Vessel (Zhi)

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Monochrome glazed ware, "mirror black" type: porcelain with black glaze and with traces of decoration in overglaze gold enamel

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze, the domed base with a turquoise blue glaze, the rim banded with metal

Porcelain with all-over application of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date); with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within the hollow stem

Jizhou ware: ivory white stoneware with decoration reserved in the biscuit against the dark brown glaze, the reserved designs covered with clear glaze over slip-painted details, selected details incised through the brown glaze. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

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

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Perhaps Jizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and decoration created through the application of ash onto the surface of the glaze

Gray stoneware

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding