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 molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze and yellow enamel overglaze

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

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

Longquan ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised, combed, and carved decoration

Originally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

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

Porcelain with clear glaze

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the designs reserved against a ground of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

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

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in gold enamels a red enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Chang Chun Yong Bao" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle arranged to simulate a Chinese coin.