ANCIENT PYXIS (WITHOUT LID CORINTHIAN STYLE. MIDDL E PERIOD. DECORATED IN BLACK AND PURPLE-RED OF B A NDS, CHECKERS AND A CONTINOUS FRIEZE

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

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

Cast bronze; with an inscription cast behind the animal's neck

Terracotta

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

Silver, gilt

Yellow-green glass

Terracotta

Black basalt

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Terracotta

Export blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue