Small Circular Dish with Lightly Everted Lip

"Wucai" ware: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, and yellow enamels, the bowstring-line borders painted in underglaze cobalt blue. Probably from the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province

Porcelain with clear glaze

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

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, yellow, green, and black enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Carved rhinoceros horn

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

Monochrome ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze over incised decoration; with incised underglaze mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within an incised double-circle on the base

Guan- or Ge-type ware: light gray stoneware with crackled, grayish blue glaze

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

Enameled biscuit porcelain: porcelain with yellow enamel over incised decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base

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

Monochrome enameled ware: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading 'Da Ming Hongzhinian zhi' within a double circle on the base