Hand Cup in the Form of a Chimera with a Book on its Back, the Chimera Emerging from Waves

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue surrounded by a wide border of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date) and exterior decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels

"Wucai" ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, and yellow enamels, the bowstring-line borders painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province

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 Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green enamel, the wave pattern incised; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" inside the hollow stem

Porcelain with decoration painted in gold enamel over a red enamel ground added at a later date

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black enamel over an overglaze yellow ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Export blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Export blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.