CLOISONNE STEM CUP

Coarse buff earthenware with decoration painted in black slip over a slip-dressed ground. Upper Yellow River Valley area; from Gansu, Qinghai, or Ningxia province.

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Earthenware with lead fluxed glaze

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; the rim darked with underglaze iron-brown slip; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enamel

Cast bronze with integrally cast intaglio archaistic mark

Pale greenish white nephrite

Longquan celadon ware: light gray stoneware with grayish olive celadon glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze buff slip. From the kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Earthenware with slip-painted decoration

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over white-slip-coated applique decoration