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Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved

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

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscription inside the footring

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with incised, molded, gouged, and appliqué decoration under celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark reading "Shendetang zhi" within a double circle on the base

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Mottled dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)

Cast bronze with green patina; with an inscription on the interior

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with an all-over coating of overglaze yellow enamel, the design reserved in red enamel against the yellow ground, the details articulated in black enamel on the reserved designs; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base.

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing