ANCIENT, PLATE POOR BLACK VARNISH WARE.

Alabaster

Fritware with carved and molded decoration under monochrome glaze

Terracotta

Silver

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Terracotta

Silver

Metal

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and overglaze yellow enamel over the reserved decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" reserved against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground within a double circle, the mark and double-circle picked out in yellow enamel

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

Ceramic

Terracotta