Base Ring Double Flask

Silver

Black earthenware

Gilt copper-alloy electrotype

Glass

Cast bronze

Cast bronze; with inscriptions on the vessel floor and interior of cover

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Ceramic

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration

Terracotta

Alabaster