Jade Covered Flattened Vase with Decoration of the Scholar Tao Yuanming (365-427)

White stoneware with clear glaze over molded decoration and stylized Chinese character "shou" (longevity) impressed into the flat floor; the rim banded with metal

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Monochrome glazed porcelain; porcelain with pale cobalt-blue glaze, the rim finished with an application of iron-brown slip simulating a metal band; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

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

Pale greenish white nephrite

Monochrome glazed porcelain, "peach bloom" type; porcelain with rose-colored, copper-red glaze suffused with green and buff mottles; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel

Pale greenish white nephrite

Monochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze coral-red enamel; with overglaze red enamel mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Mottled yellow nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding