Circular Dish with Decoration of Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin Dressed as a Scholar Floating on a Cloud

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

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

Carved rhinoceros horn

Cloudy, grayish white nephrite

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

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

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled porcelain: biscuit porcelain with incised decoration, the principle design elements covered with yellow enamel, the additional designs with aubergine enamel; with spurious(?) underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel added to the exterior at a later date

Carved rhinoceros horn

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