Circular Dish with Decoration of Phoenixes in Flight on the Interior and Eight Roundels, Each with an Auspicious Emblem, on the Exterior (one from a set)

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome and gold enamels

Monochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with incised mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within an incised double circle, all beneath a cobalt-blue glaze on the base

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip over a white slip ground

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

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue on the interior and gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground on the exterior, the exterior decoration added at a later date

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Enameled biscuit porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel over incised decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Enameled ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze and overglaze yellow enamel over incised decoration; with incised mark reading "Da Ming Jiajingnian zhi" within a circle on the base

Carved rhinoceros horn with inlays of turquoise

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, yellow, green, and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base