Small Conical Bowl with Decoration of Three Floral Sprays

Ceramic

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 7 (qi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Ziqiang buxi yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the Room of Unceasing Self-Improvement) inscription incised on base at a later date

Ceramic

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

Gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments

Longquan celadon ware: molded light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze

Pale yellow clay, black paint

Terracotta

Underglazed, painted fritware

Earthenware

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