CHINESE BRONZE BOWL,WITH INCISED CHARACTERS ON BA SE,(85.70..1976)

Black-surfaced cast bronze; with integrally cast dedicatory inscriptions by Qing inscribed on the vessel floor and interior of lid

Mottled dark green nephrite (so-called spinach-green jade)

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing

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

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Horn

Gray earthenware with cold painted pigment on interior

Jizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province

Horn

Off-white stoneware with combed and applique decoration and with traces of ash glaze

Probably Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze. Probably from the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.