Bowl with Lotus Petal Design

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Yaozhou ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Soft-paste porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Light gray earthenware with incised decoration

Stoneware with blue-and-white glaze

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel

Shufu ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze; with molded characters reading "Shu Fu" incorporated into the design

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