Set of Nine Sweetmeat Dishes Comprising a Circular Dish Featuring Shou Lao, the God of Longevity, Surrounded by Eight Trapezoidal Dishes, Each Featuring One of the Eight Immortals

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

Terracotta

Sancai ("three color") ware: pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed, cobalt-blue splahed clear glaze on the interior and lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior, the (slightly degraded) glazes over a white-slip ground

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with polychrome enamels and gilding

Terracotta, black glaze, decorated with grooves

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Raku ware: light gray earthenware with black glaze and with seal on base reading "Raku"

Terracotta

Qianlong-style molded porcelain: porcelain with molded decoration under very pale blue qingbai-type glaze

Pale brown glass

Misfired Jian ware: dark brown stoneware with misfired glaze turned olive