Stembowl with Everted Lip

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

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Carved rhinoceros horn

Carved rhinoceros horn

Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing 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 Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

"Wucai" ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, and yellow enamels, the bowstring-line borders painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province

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

Stoneware with blue glaze; with three spur marks in the center

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