Object Stand for Hand Cup in the Form of a Chimera with a Book on its Back, the Chimera Emerging from Waves

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, the designs reserved against a ground of overglaze yellow enamel; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Hongzhi nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

'Qingbai' ware: porcelain with pale bluish glaze over incised and carved decoration, the interior with appliqué containers, stylized sculpture, and leaf stems, the appliqué elements touched with iron-brown slip to add areas of localized color in firing. Probably from a kiln in Fujian province.

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip on a white slip ground under a clear glaze

Cloudy, grayish white nephrite

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

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick-red earthenware with degraded lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; the cover with molded decoration

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 3 (san) inscribed on base before firing

Carved rhinoceros horn

Gray stoneware with blackened surface

Bronze

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Monochrome glazed porcelain: porcelain with crackled grayish green glaze over iron-brown slip