Ritual Food Vessel (Gui)

Ceramic

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Biscuit porcelain with applique molded handles and decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on base and inside of cover

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Yellow nephrite

Gray earthenware

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a circle on the base

Gray earthenware with cold-painted decoration

Black earthenware

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Gray earthenware with cold painted pigment on interior

Burnished black earthenware