Unguentarium

Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, gilding, and metal mounts.

Carved greenish yellow stone with caramel and reddish brown mottles (perhaps soapstone); dark brown stone stand

Carved rhinoceros horn

Numbered-Jun-type ware: light gray stonware with variegated lavender-blue glaze, the glaze shading to olive brown where thin

Brass

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gold

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base

Terracotta

Earthenware

Terracotta

Ding ware: Porcelain with pale, ivory-hued glaze over appliqué molded decoration. From North China, probably from the Ding kilns, near Quyang, Hebei province.

Biscuit porcelain with decoration painted in green, aubergine, and black enamels against a yellow enamel ground; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base