Small Jug with Loop Handle

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with decoration painted in black slip on a white-slip ground under a clear glaze, the clear glaze then covered all over with a lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze; with brush-written inscription on the interior of the foot ring

Porcelain with underglaze cobalt blue decoration

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Qianlong nian zhi" in seal-script characters on the base

Enameled porcelain: porcelain with emerald-green enamel over crackled glaze

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration, the interior with vertical ribs trailed in white slip. From the Yaozhou kilns near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Ding ware: porcellaneous stoneware with ivory-hued glaze, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns, Quyang county, Hebei province.

Cast bronze with inlays of turquoise, sheet gold and silver, and copper wire

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in overglaze iron oxide, the lowest portion of the exterior dressed with black slip. From the Xiaoyu cun kilns at Huairen, Shanxi province.

Tang white ware: white stoneware with clear glaze

Jian ware: dark gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the markings in iron oxide. Probably from the kilns at Shuiji, Jianyang county, Fujian province

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

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: pinkish buff earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green and amber-yellow glazes over incised decoration