PHOENIX AND LION

Ming "sancai" (three-color) ware: molded brick-red earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald green, black, and clear glazes over white slip, the flesh portions with golden lacquer over the glaze

Cast iron with traces of gold pigment over white gesso ground and traces of black pigment over gesso ground in the hair

Wood

Gilt bronze; with inscription on the stand dated to 548

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded white earthenware with traces of lead-fluxed, pale yellow glaze and with further traces of overglaze cold-painted pigments

Grayish green nephrite with brown markings

Stone

Stone with traces of polychromy; purportedly from the Tianlongshan Caves, near Taiyuan, Shanxi province

Gilt bronze

Molded, gray earthenware with cold-painted pigment

Sancai ("three-color") ware: molded pinkish white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green, caramel brown, and cobalt-blue glazes over a white-slip ground

Lead-glazed funerary ware: molded brick red earthenware with emerald green, lead-fluexed glaze