Vase with Swelling Shoulders Tapering to a Pointed Base

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Cast bronze with greenish patina; with dedicatory inscription by Servitor Chen inscribed on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Transitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with incised borders at top and bottom

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide; the lip banded with metal. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang, county, Fujian province

Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with black glaze

Stoneware with celadon glaze

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

Gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments

Earthenware