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Ceramic

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in overglaze polychrome enamels

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with ogival panels decorated with overglaze polychrome enamels, the panels reserved against an underglaze cobalt powder blue ground emblazoned with designs painted in overglaze gold enamel; with underglaze cobalt blue double circle on the base

Carved rhinoceros horn

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide

Ceramic

Splashed Jun ware: light gray stoneware with robin's-egg blue glaze enlivened with purple suffusions from copper filings

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded, carved, and incised decoration

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over incised and carved decoration

Ding ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over mold-impressed decoration, the unglazed rim bound with metal. From the Ding kilns at Quyang, Hebei province.