Lobed Dish

Carved rhinoceros horn; with inscription reading "Shi renshen mengqun fang Hanyu shi" and signature reading "Jiyu"

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in light and dark brown slips on a white slip ground; with maker's mark reading 'Wang Jia Zao' (Made [by the] Wang Family) brushed in underglaze dark brown slip on the underside.

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with variegated copper red glaze

Cloisonne enamel; polychrome enamels within brass cloisons on a copper base

Cast bronze with gray-green patina; with an inscription cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with coral-red overglaze enamel

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

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Stoneware with brown glaze

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