CHINESE BRONZE BOWL,WITH INCISED CHARACTERS ON BA SE,(85.70..1976)

Burnished black earthenware

Stoneware with celadon glaze

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

Qingbai ware: porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze over decoration trailed in white slip

Gray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground

Carved rhinoceros horn

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with molded decoration and underglaze cobalt blue

Porcelain with blue enamel and gilding

Cast bronze with olive-green patina; with inscription cast below the handle

Cast bronze with traces of malachite and copper-wire inlay

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: white earthenware with lead-fluxed cobalt-blue glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed pale yellow glaze on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.