Globular Bottle with Flaring Mouth

Stoneware

Hard-paste porcelain

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

Terracotta

Silver

Numbered Jun ware: light gray stoneware with variegated purple and blue glaze; with Chinese numeral 1 (yi) inscribed on base before firing

Porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue, with relief plub blossoms touched on in white slip and embellished with pale celadon glaze, the background with overglaze yellow enamel; with spurious mark underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Ming Xuande nian zhi" within a double circle on the base

Imitation Jun ware: porcelain with variegated purple glaze. Perhaps made at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province.

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with incised, molded, and appliqué decoration under celadon glaze. From the Yue kilns in the Shaoxing area, northeastern Zhejiang province.

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Terracotta

Gray stoneware with cold-painted decoration over white gesso ground