Ritual Food Vessel (Gui)

Qingbai-type ware: molded porcelain with virtually colorless glaze

Light gray stoneware with appliqué handle and spout and with medium brown glaze. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Carved rhinoceros horn; with inscription reading "Shi renshen mengqun fang Hanyu shi" and signature reading "Jiyu"

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Painted Jizhou ware: off-white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze iron slip under clear glaze. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over white-slip-coated applique decoration

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Carved rhinoceros horn

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple glaze; with Chinese numeral 2 (er) inscribed on base before firing

Horn