DRINKING CUPS,SEVERAL CARVED OBJECTS MADE OF RHINO CEROS HORN,AND WOODEN STANDS.

Horn

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" below the lip

Light gray stoneware with finely crackled, ivory-hued glaze

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

Transitional blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with incised borders at top and bottom

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

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

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue on upper and lower sections, the central register with red, yellow, and aubergine enamels over incised decoration on biscuit porcelain

Carved rhinoceros horn

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red and green enamels, probably added at a later date

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