'Ding' Ritual Food Vessel with Decorative Band of Birds and 'Leiwen' Decor

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze 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.

Terracotta; reddish clay with black paint

Alabaster

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue and purple glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing

Ceramic

Silver

Monochrome glazed porcelain, Langyao red: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze

Cast bronze; Zhengzhou phase, Erligang type

Ceramic

Stone

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.