Ritual Wine Vessel (Zun)

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

Changsha ware: light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over white slip and underglaze decoration painted in iron-brown and copper-green pigments, the rim with touches of iron-brown. From the kilns at Tongguan, Changsha, Hunan province.

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "doucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzhengnian zhi" within a double square on the base

Yaozhou "moon white" (yuebai) ware: very light gray stoneware with pale celadon glaze over thin coating of white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Yue ware: stoneware with celadon glaze

Gray earthenware

wood

Burnished black earthenware

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 9 (jiu) inscribed on base before firing

Stoneware with celadon glaze

Cast bronze with integrally cast intaglio archaistic mark