Covered 'Pou' Vessel

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, yellow, green, and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Ganzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili, Ganzhou, Jiangxi province

Reddish brown stoneware; with two-character seal mark impressed on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Carved rhinoceros horn

Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Mottled yellow nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Ceramic

Light gray stoneware with decoration cold-painted in brown and yellow pigments over white gesso ground

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration