Covered Ovoid Jar (So-Called Ginger Jar) with Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches against a "Shattered Ice" Ground

Burnished black earthenware

Grayish green nephrite; carved wood

Terracotta

Sancai ("three-color") ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue, emerald-green and caramel-brown glazes over stamped decoration on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel glaze on the exterior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

Ceramic

Hard-paste porcelain with polychrome enamel decoration, gilding, and metal mounts.

Buff-colored earthenware painted with luster (silver and copper) over white lead alkali glaze opacified with tin

Pressed glass

Terracotta

Terracotta

Sancai ("three-color") ware; white earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes on the interior and lead-fluxed caramel-brown glaze over molded decoration on the exterior

Porcelain with interior decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with gold enamel painted on a red enamel ground added to the exterior at a later date; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Yongle nian zhi" within a single circle on the base.