Scholar's Rock

Pale, greenish white nephrite with caramel markings

Cast bronze with localized areas of cold gilding and red and blue pigments; with cast inscription at the front of base reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian jing zao"

Enameled porcelain: molded and assembled porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Gilt bronze with traces of black pigment (black lacquer?) in the hair

Enameled porcelain, "famille jaune" type: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze yellow, green, and aubergine enamels

Cloudy sea-green nephrite with rust-brown staining

Gilt bronze with blue and orange pigments highlighting the deity's hair and the lion's mane respectively

Bronze and enamel

Ying stone: black limestone with veins of white calcite. From Yingde, Guangdong province.

White nephrite shading to caramel brown over much of the surface

Dehua ware (so-called "Blanc de Chine"): molded porcelain with ivory-hued glaze

Grayish white nephrite with dark brown mottling