Small Circular Dish with Decoration of Two Fish Swimming Amidst Blossoming Lotus Plants

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white-slip ground under a clear glaze, the clear glaze then covered all over with a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; with brush-written inscription on the interior of the foot ring

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Copper alloy

Gray earthenware with cold-painted pigments

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the russet markings in overglaze iron oxide

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

Bronze, traces of silvering and possible gilding

Terracotta

Terracotta; reddish yellow clay with slip

Pale olive-green glass

Cast bronze with gray-green patina; inscribed with a three-character dedication

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