Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches and Birds

Ceramic

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Horn or tortoise shell with decoration in black, crimson and gold lacquer

Ceramic

Ceramic

Satsuma ware; white earthenware with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels and with impressed mark on the base reading 'Taizan'

Kyoto ware: buff earthenware with clear glaze and decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Porcelain with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze golden slip

Imitation Wanli, "wucai" type ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Awata ware; white earthenware with decoration in original cartouches in overglaze polychrome enamels and with background decoration imitating cloisonne enamel; with inscription on base reading 'Nihon Kyoto Kinkōzan zo'

Ceramic

White earthenware with decoration in black and blue pigment under a clear, crackled glaze