Bowl with Lotus Petal Decor

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

Porcelain with decoration painted in gold enamel over a red enamel ground added at a later date

Bronze

"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

Earthenware

Carved rhinoceros horn

Pale grayish white nephrite

Black earthenware

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with crackled yellow glaze

Coarse buff earthenware with decoration painted in black slip over a slip-dressed ground. Upper Yellow River Valley area; from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Blackened gray earthenware

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