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

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

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over combed, molded, and openwork decoration

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Grayish brown agate with brown mottles; tourmaline cover with attached ivory spoon

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with tortoiseshell glaze on the exterior, and with papercut decoration reserved in dark brown glaze against a variegated buff ground on the interior. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Monochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with incised mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within an incised double circle, all beneath a cobalt-blue glaze on the base

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Sui'an shi yong"(Palace of Double Glory, used in the Room of Ease and Contentment) inscription incised on base at a later date

Russet Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kiln complex, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province.

Porcelain with blue and white glaze

Cast bronze with malachite and copper inlays