Small Vase with Broad Shoulder and Flaring Base and Mouth and with Black Glaze with Trace Decoration of Fruiting Grape Vine and a Poem

Earthenware

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Ceramic

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

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Stoneware with blue glaze; with three spur marks in the center

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Cast bronze with blackish patina; with dedicatory inscription by Lady Geng Ying cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior

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

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration