ROUND BOWL WITH LOOP HANDLES

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Cast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Ding ware: Porcelain with pale, ivory-hued glaze over appliqué molded decoration. From North China, probably from the Ding kilns, near Quyang, Hebei province.

Horn

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration, the exterior with carved vertical lines suggesting petals. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Carved rhinoceros horn

Cast bronze; with inscription cast on the vessel floor

Dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters

Misfired Jian ware: dark brown stoneware with misfired glaze turned olive

Cast bronze with incrustations of green patina; with inscription on both the vessel floor and lid interior