Bowl with Lotus Petal Design

Cast bronze

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration, the interior with vertical ribs trailed in white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the cartouches and plum branches reserved against a cobalt-blue ground

Provincial ware imitating porcelain: light gray stoneware with white slip and clear glaze over molded decoration

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"

Biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, turquoise, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a circle on the base

Cold-painted funerary ware: light gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover

Gray earthenware with incised decoration