Bust-Shaped Vessel Depicting an African

Terracotta

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

Pale blue-green glass

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Punch'ŏng ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip on the white-slip ground. Made near Kongju, at the foot of Mount Kyeryong, South Ch'ungch'ŏng province.

Metal

Terracotta

Silver

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled procelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze green and black enamels and with molded mountain and wave pattern; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Tongzhi nian zhi" on the base

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue