FRAGMENT BONE PAINTED GREEN

Cast bronze, Ordos type. From Northwestern China.

Buff earthenware with modeled, applique and stippled decoration, the surface darkened in firing. Upper Yellow River Valley area; probably from Gansu or Qinghai province.

Pale greenish white nephrite, with dated inscription of the Qianlong Emperor on the reverse

Dehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with applique elements under ivory-hued glaze and attached horse hair (simulating the figure's beard); with spurious impressed seal mark reading "Zhang Shou Shan" on the back

Molded brick-red earthenware with emerald green, lead-fluxed glaze

Polished stone with natural inclusions

Cold-painted funerary ware: molded and carved white earthenware with applique elements and traces of cold-painted pigments

Gilt bronze

Nephrite

Molded, medium gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments; localized areas with cold-painted pigments over white ground

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with much degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze

Marble with polychromy