Small Circular Dish with Decoration of Two Fish Swimming Amidst Blossoming Lotus Plants

Bronze

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Wanli nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale, sky-blue glaze over molded decoration, the unglazed lip banded with silver. From the kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China

Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron) and red (iron) under clear lead glaze

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

Turned bronze with incised decor

Ceramic

Longquan celadon ware: fine grained, light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over molded decoration. From the Longquan kilns at Longquan, Zhejiang province.

Terracotta

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

Northern black ware of Cizhou type: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze, the rim with clear glaze over white slip