ROUND BOWL WITH LOOP HANDLES

Earthenware with slip painted decoration painted and white inlays

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with coral-red overglaze enamel

Longquan celadon ware: fine grained, light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Cast bronze; with inscription on the vessel floor and interior of cover

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze

Jizhou-type ware, probably Tushan ware: light gray stoneware with variegated brown and amber glazes over a white slip ground, the lower portion of the bottle coated with dark russet slip. Probably from the kilns at Tushan, Sichuan province.

Black earthenware

Porcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the designs reserved in yellow against a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi"

Provincial ware imitating porcelain: light gray stoneware with white slip and clear glaze over molded decoration

Porcelain with intermingled copper red and cobalt blue glazes

Gray earthenware