Circular Dish with Decoration of Phoenixes in Flight on the Interior and Eight Roundels, Each with an Auspicious Emblem, on the Exterior (one from a set)

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Monochrome ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within the hollow stem

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the background areas embellished with overglaze yellow enamel; underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Zhengde nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow and red enamels

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; swith purious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zao"

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip over a white slip ground

Originally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground

Enameled ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against an overglaze red enamel ground, the reserved elements embellished with green and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel