TEAR BOTTLE BOUGHT AT ATHENS

Pale yellow clay, black paint

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels

Metal and nautilus shell

Terracotta

Lacquer

Terracotta; pale yellow clay and slip with light brown paint and applied purple

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province

Terracotta

Greenish yellow nephrite

Black basalt

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

Ceramic