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

Terracotta with white and black paint

Blue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue

Terracotta

Ceramic

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with misfired olive-brown celadon glaze and kiln adhesions. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Terracotta, black gloss

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

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze and overglaze decoration

Terracotta

Terracotta

Bronze

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