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

Greenish yellow nephrite

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

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

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

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

Pale greenish white nephrite

Pale greenish white nephrite

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with copper red glaze

Red-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze copper red; with underglaze cobalt blue circle on the base

Enameled porcelain, "famille noir" type: porcelain with overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue hallmark of an artemisia leaf with a ribbon

Jade carved in Mughal style; pale greenish white nephrite

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