Alms Bowl with Inscription

Carved wood, the knob made of semi-precious stone

Export enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze blue, black, and gold enamels

Cast bronze; with inscription on vessel floor

Pale greenish white nephrite

Reddish brown stoneware, the interior finished with a crackled white glaze; with four-character seal mark impressed into the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze red, green, black, and gold enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Ta Ming Jiajing nian zhi" on the base

Reddish brown stoneware; with two-character seal mark impressed on the base

Grayish green nephrite; carved wood

Cast bronze; with inscription on the vessel floor and interior of cover

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with "anhua" decoration painted in white slip on the interior cavetto and with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with spurious underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze polychrome enamels