Wine taster's cup

Cast bronze with blackish patina; with dedicatory inscription by Lady Geng Ying cast on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Monochrome ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze over incised decoration; with incised underglaze mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within an incised double-circle on the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

Splashed Jun ware: coarse gray stoneware with light blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusion from copper filings

Silver, parcel-gilt

Porphyry; six-character mark in seal script on the base reading 'Da Qing Qianlongnian zhi'

Terracotta

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised, carved, and combed decoration

Glass

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration