Wine taster's cup

Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip

Terracotta

Terracotta with shell temper, hand made

Porcelain with decoration in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels; with spurious mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi"

Silver

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

Grisaille-enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black and iron-red enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Yongzheng nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

White painted zinc sheet metal with glass liner

Wood

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Cuiyun guan yong" (Palace of Double Glory, used in the Lodge of Emerald Clouds) inscription incised on base at a later date

Silver