Covered Ritual Wine Vessel (You)

Porcelain, partially painted and gilded

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground under a clear glaze

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

Nickel silver and ebony

Light gray earthenware with dark brown glaze and splash of greenish glaze on mouth and neck

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark reading "Yu" on the base

Terracotta with green-blue glaze

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Ceramic

Copper alloy