One of a Pair of Salt Cellars

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over molded and carved decoration

Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration

Porcelain 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

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

Metal-hinged, velvet-lined wooden box containing numerous metal sewing machine attachments

Fritware

White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green

Earthenware

Plain celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze

Brass

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved against a cobalt-blue ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base