Ritual Food Vessel (Gui)

Yue ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Underfired Black Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with brownish green, tea-dust-like glaze. Probably from the kilns at Jianci village, possibly from those at East or West Yanchuan village, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Gray earthenware with traces of cold-painted pigments

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

Transitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with incised borders at top and bottom

Bronze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; metal fitting on rim

Possibly Xing ware; porcelain with incised and appliqué decoration. Possibly made at the Xing kilns, Hebei province.

Biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Silver with repousse decoration picked out in parcel gilding

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