BRONZE RITUAL VESSEL, TYPE KU

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Soft-paste porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green glaze over molded and applique decoration

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

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with dark brown glaze suffused with iridescent silvery flecks

Carved rhinoceros horn

Gray earthenware with cold painted pigments

Green Jun ware: light gray stoneware with crazed celadon glaze

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark in a double square, all within a double circle

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base