Cylindrical Bottle with Flaring Lip and Abstract Decor

Cast bronze

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 10 (shi) inscribed on base before firing; "Yangxin dian Dongnuan ge louxia yong" (Hall of Mental Cultivation, used in the East Heated Chamber, main floor) inscription incised on base at a later date

Ceramic

Lacquer, black and red, with silver

White ware: glazed porcelain with incised mark reading "Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Terracotta

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze enlivened with markings in overglaze iron-brown slip. From the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province.

Salt-glazed stoneware

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the base with a brush-written inscription reading 'Te'

Silver

Mottled yellow nephrite; the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

Leaded bronze