Deep Square Dish with Decoration of Golden Carp Swimming among Aquatic Plants

Cizhou-type ware: light gray stoneware with medium brown glaze over white slip, the decoration incised into the glaze before firing to reveal the white slip. Place of manufacture uncertain--probably from northern China.

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze green enamel, the wave pattern incised; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" inside the hollow stem

Carved rhinoceros horn

Carved rhinoceros horn

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze red enamel; with spurious underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamels added at a later date

Export blue-and-white ware, kraak porcelain: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with overglaze polychrome enamel designs and yellow enamel ground added at a later date; with spurious overglaze black enamel mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base, the mark and double circle also covered in yellow enamel

Carved rhinoceros horn

Monochrome blue ware: porcelain with cobalt-blue glaze over incised decoration; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing Nian Zhi" within a double circle on the base

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze yellow and red enamels

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.