Bowl with Illustrations of the Vessantara Jataka

Ceramic

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.

Arita ware, early Kakiemon style: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with slate gray glaze mottled with blue overglaze; with impressed seal mark reading "Moriyasu" on the exterior wall above the footring

Incised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

Terracotta

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved and incised decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Bronze

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Chenghua nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enamel