Small Foliate-Rimmed Dish

Gray earthenware with cold painted pigment

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

Grayish brown agate with brown mottles

Splashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. From the Jian kilns at Jianyang, Fujian province.

Export blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Reddish brown stoneware; with two-character seal mark impressed on the base

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Porcelain with incised decoration under a pale light blue glaze with incised mark reading "Yongle nian zhi" on the base

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

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

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.