Vase in the Form of a Female Figure

Silver

Light gray stoneware with crazed ivory glaze stained brown

Stoneware

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Biscuit porcelain with applique molded handles and decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on base and inside of cover

Black-surfaced gray stoneware with combed, appliqué, and openwork decoration

Porcelain with molded "anhua" decoration and incised "anhua" mark reading "Yongle nian zhi" on the floor

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: molded grayish white earthenware with lead-fluxed amber-yellow and emerald-green glazes

Porcelain with cobalt blue underglaze and yellow enamel overglaze

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

Terracotta

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed rim bound with brass. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.