Small Jar with Globular Body and Small Mouth

Blackened earthenware

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze and with splashes of transparent amber glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cizhou-type ware: earthenware with sancai (three-color) glaze

Dark green nephrite with black inclusions (so-called spinach-green jade); with spurious mark reading 'Qianlongnian zhi' in seal-script characters

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "ox blood" type: porcelain with lightly variegated copper red glaze on the interior and very pale celadon glaze on the interior and base; with 19th-early 20th century carved and assembled wood cover with tourmaline knob

Mottled light green nephrite

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

Earthenware with applique decoration

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

Ding-type ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze; with brush-written inscription on base

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