ANCIENT PYXIS BOUGHT AT ATHENS

Pale greenish white nephrite

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with crackled yellow glaze

Buff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated magenta and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing; "Chonghua gong Sui'an shi yong"(Palace of Double Glory, used in the Room of Ease and Contentment) inscription incised on base at a later date

Cast bronze with dark green, speckled patina; with a 12-character dedication inscribed on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in red enamel on an overglaze yellow enamel ground, the interior with two pairs of underglaze cobalt-blue bowstring lines; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Temmoku-inspired ware; light gray stoneware with impressed decoration inlaid with white slip under clear glaze, the floor of the bowl covered with black glaze partially washed with overglaze brown slip

Off-white stoneware with clear glaze

Cast bronze with gray-green patina

Terracotta