Calabash-Shaped Bottle with Squared Lower Section and Abstract Decor

Enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow and green enamels applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the interior and base with clear glaze; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle 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, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Guan- or Ge-type ware: light gray stoneware with crackled, grayish blue glaze

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark simulating a coin and reading "Chang Ming Fu Gui"

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

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel added to the exterior at a later date

Carved cinnabar lacquer over a wooden core; with incised inscription reading "Ta

Cast bronze

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 painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow and red enamels

Enamelled ware: porcelain with yellow and green enamels applied on the biscuit over incised decoration, the interior and base with clear glaze; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle on the base