Small Double-Handled Vase

Black earthenware

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

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, black, and gold enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Ta Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

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

Carved greenish yellow stone with caramel and reddish brown mottles (perhaps soapstone); dark brown stone stand

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue hallmark reading "Yuyi Chunyitang" within a double square on the base

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the exterior with russet skin, the interior with russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Gray stoneware

Longquan ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, combed, and carved decoration

Gray stoneware with blackened surface