Bowl from Room I3 of Nuzi Stratum VII (or IV)

Ceramic

Bronze

Etching fired onto ceramic plate, then colored, glazed, and refired

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, caramel-brown, and clear glazes over stamped decoration and with lead fluxed, pale yellow glaze on the feet. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Silver

Metal

Terracotta; pale yellow clay with slip

Silver

Gray earthenware with impressed cord marks

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

Terracotta

Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.