Lid(?) with Decoration of Bird with Outstretched Wings

Carved rhinoceros horn

Coarse buff earthenware with decoration painted in black slip over a slip-dressed ground. Upper Yellow River Valley area; from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

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 double circle on the base

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 8 (ba) inscribed on base base before firing

Ceramic

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze iron oxide

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue surrounded by a wide border of overglaze red enamel (probably added at a later date) and exterior decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Earthenware with brown lead glaze

Red earthenware with stamped decoration

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