Bowl with Curled Handle

Painted Jizhou ware: very light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in iron-brown slip; with two-character inscription reading 'Yuwang' incised on the base. From the Jizhou kilns near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Silver, gilt

Earthenware with impressed decor

Bronze

Cast bronze with incrustations of green patina; with inscription on both the vessel floor and lid interior

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with overglaze sepia-enamel hallmark reading "Xu Hua Tang zhi" on the base

Monochrome-glazed ware: pale pink earthenware with (partially degraded) lead-fluxed, clear glaze over white slip ground on the exterior; the pale blue splashes applied over the glaze in the twentieth century, using blue ink or pigment; with lead-fluxed, yellow glaze on the interior

Gilt copper-alloy electrotype

Silver

Underglaze slip-painted earthenware

Fritware

Porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue double circle on the base