Small Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip, the Interior with Decoration of a Lotus Pond, the Exterior with Four Roundels, Each with a Bird Between Blossoming Plants

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue on upper and lower sections, the central register with red, yellow, and aubergine enamels over incised decoration on biscuit porcelain

Translucent greenish white and brown nephrite

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled blue-and-white ware: molded porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and yellow and red enamels over reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading 'Da Ming Longqing nian zao' within a double circle on the base

Porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an overglaze red enamel ground, the pictorial elements articulated with black enamel, and the foliage covered with green enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red and green enamels; swith purious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Xuande nian zao"

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with incised and carved decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.