Small Jar with Globular Body and Small Mouth

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black enamel over an overglaze yellow ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Earthenware with cord impressed decoration

Brown-glazed ware: light gray stoneware with lustrous dark-brown glaze; with recently associated pewter cover

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron oxide

Painted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip; with two-character inscription reading 'Yuwang' incised on the base. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Cast bronze with heavy incrustations of green and russet patina

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.

Pale greenish white nephrite

Lacquer, black and red, with silver

Earthenware with cord-marked decor