Cup in the Shape of a Log Raft with the Adventurer Zhang Qian

Carved rhinoceros horn

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

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Originally a pale greenish-white nephrite changed to a creamy-buff because of burning (so-called chicken-bone jade); the stone of Central Asian origin, probably from Khotan

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration highlighted in underglaze cobalt-blue against an overglaze yellow enamel ground; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels

Carved rhinoceros horn

Monochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt blue glaze; with incised mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" within an incised double circle, all beneath a cobalt-blue glaze on the base

Export blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

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

Guan- or Ge-type ware: light gray stoneware with crackled, grayish blue glaze