Covered 'Pou' Vessel

Gray earthenware

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "peach bloom" type; porcelain with rose-colored, copper-red glaze suffused with green and buff mottles; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal

Porcelain with decoration painted in polychrome enamels over a crackled glaze

Cast bronze

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

Celadon ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Wood

Gray earthenware with cold-painted decoration

Cast bronze with decoration inlaid in hseet gold, silver, and sheet silver

Ceramic

Pale greenish white nephrite