Chestnut or Fruit Basket

Metal

White stoneware with transparent glaze tinged with green.

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.

Terracotta; buff slip, brown and red glaze

Jizhou ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze suffused with buff markings. From the Jizhou kilns, near Yonghe, Ji'an, Jiangxi province.

Pale greenish white nephrite

Terracotta

Polychrome plaster

Yaozhou ware: medium gray stoneware coated all over with white slip, the decoration carved through the slip to reveal the underlying darker body, the exterior of the jar further covered with celadon glaze, the interior left unglazed; Made at Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Polychromed terracotta

Cast bronze with pale green patina

Silver, engraved and ammonia blackened