Jiajing period, 1522-1566
H. 2.9 x Diam. 12.8 cm (1 1/8 x 5 1/16 in.)
"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
16th-17th centuryChineseCloudy, grayish white nephrite
16th-17th centuryChinesePorcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.
16th-17th centuryChineseEnameled biscuit porcelain: molded biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in aubergine enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double-circle on the base
16th-17th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel
16th-17th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel
16th centuryChineseEnameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow and red enamels
16th-17th centuryChineseEnameled 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
15th-16th centuryChineseEnameled 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
16th-17th centuryChinesePorcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel added to the exterior at a later date
16th-17th centuryChineseCizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze brown slip on a white slip ground, with details touched on the surface of the clear glaze in russet-brown slip and olive-green glaze in localized areas, the unglazed lowest portion finished with dark brown glaze
14th-17th centuryChineseCarved rhinoceros horn
16th centuryChinese