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Lightly burnished gray earthenware with modeled and appliqué decoration. Upper Yellow River Valley area; Gansu, Qing hai, or Shaanxi province or Inner Mongolia.

Hard-paste with polychrome enamels

Brass, inlaid with silver

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in black enamel over an overglaze yellow ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Monochrome glazed ware, "mirror black" type: porcelain with black glaze and with traces of decoration in overglaze gold enamel

Terracotta

Turned bronze

Bronze

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

Ceramic

Ceramic

Terracotta