Covered 'Pou' Vessel

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

Qianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze

Carved rhinoceros horn

"Soft Jun" ware: light gray stoneware with thick, crackled robin's-egg blue glaze

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes

Longquan ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and carved decoration

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) 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

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green

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.

Medium gray stoneware with combed, incised, and applique decoration

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over appliqué decoration