Small Cup (one of two)

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Cast bronze; with integrally cast three-character inscription reading "Yao Zuo Yi" on the interior wall

Cloudy, pale greenish white nephrite

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: off-white stoneware with dark brown glaze, the interior with russet markings in iron oxide, the exterior with russet skin. Probably from the Cizhou kilns at Guantai, Cixian, Hebei province.

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Tang white ware: white stoneware with applique handles and pale celadon glaze

Cast bronze; with integrally cast four-character inscription reading "Zuo Fu Xin _?_" on the interior of the lip

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray 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

Ding ware: porcellaneous white stoneware with ivory-hued glaze over incised and carved decoration, the unglazed lip originally bound with metal. From the Ding kilns in Quyang county, Hebei province.

Ganzhou ware: light gray stoneware, the unglazed exterior with combed and applique decoration, the unglazed neck with beads of pearly white glaze to form the bosses, the interior with russet-surfaced dark brown glaze. From the kilns at Qili Ganzhou, Jiangxi province

Marbled earthenware with amber colored lead glaze