The Bodhisattva Simhanâda ("One Who Roars Like a Lion") Seated on a Lion

Stone, perhaps steatite, with grayish brown coating and dark brown spots

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

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

White nephrite shading to caramel brown over much of the surface

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

Cloudy sea-green nephrite with rust-brown staining

Pale greenish white nephrite, with dated inscription of the Qianlong Emperor on the reverse

Pale greenish white nephrite with caramel markings

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

Gilt bronze

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

Grayish white nephrite with dark brown mottling