SMALL PITCHER,WITH POOR BLACK VARNISH

Bronze

Terracotta

Jizhou or Jizhou-type ware: white stoneware with clear glaze, the decoration incised and carved through the glaze before firing. Probably from the Jizhou kilns at Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province; possibly from the Linchuan kilns at Linchuan, Jiangxi province

Silver

Carved wood, the knob made of semi-precious stone

Silver

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: pinkish buff earthenware with lead-fluxed clear, emerald-green, and caramel-brown glazes over a white-slip ground

Terracotta

Earthenware with bichrome slip-painted decoration

Cloisonne enamel; polychrome enamels within brass cloisons on a copper base

Light gray stoneware with decoration painted in iron-brown slip under translucent light bluish green glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against an underglaze cobalt-blue ground and with overglaze yellow enamel over the white decoration; underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Jiajing nian zhi" written on the base against a cobalt-blue ground