Vase with Swelling Shoulders Tapering to a Pointed Base

Bronze

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Black-surfaced cast bronze; with dedicatory inscription by Qing cast on vessel floor

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Gray earthenware

Cast bronze with pale green patina

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired olive-brown celadon glaze and kiln adhesions. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Pale greenish white nephrite

Cast bronze

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale bluish glaze, the unglazed rim originally bound with metal