Apothecary Jar (with Cover)

Terracotta

Cast bronze with heavy incrustations of green and russet patina

Turned bronze

Imari ware: porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt-blue

White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with bluish green celadon glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Cast bronze; with integrally cast inscriptions on vessel floor and interior of cover

Proto porcelain: stoneware with thin ash glaze

Alabaster

Monochrome enameled porcelain: porcelain with overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi" on the base

Ceramic

Hard-paste porcelain with monochrome enamel decoration