Tall, thin figure (royal attendant) wearing a robe. Hands are together at waist; feet are not visible; hair is done up.

Daoist album leaf. Gold painted Chinese calligraphy in three columns on a piece of brown silk that has been mounted on off-white damask-patterned silk on paper.

Two hangings (part a-b) with multiple panels. There are three solid panels interspaced with openwork panels. The solid panels are green with butterfly, floral motif; cream with a fruit motif; and blue with dragon, phoenix, sun motifs. The openwork panels are shaped as bat and coin; fruit; and cloud with an endless knot motif. There are beads between the solid and openwork panels. Hanging from the bottom is a green tassel. The back is lined with purple silk damask with a floral and scroll motif.

Light brown coloured coiled rope. Rope is made of two pieces of twisted fibre. One end has unraveled and there are small pin-sized holes overall.

Miniature wooden figure of a woman sitting on a white crane--woman has black hair and wears a gold, green and red robe. Bird is white with a green bill and feet. Base is a flat, red wooden rectangle.

Twelve-sided geometric lantern with hanging string at top and a multicoloured fringe and red sting tassel at bottom. Constructed from white gauze stretched on a wire frame with coloured paper pasted to it. Paper is cut into intricate, arabesque-like patterns that fill their respective planes--four sides have paper characters in their centres.

Card game consisting of a box of 84 elongated rectangular cards, each with black marks and images on the face and black on the reverse. The box, printed in red and green, has images depicting two elephants as well as text in English and Chinese.

Stack of pink circular slips of paper with four coloured feathers protruding from the centre.

Copper object with one flat, elliptical end tapering to a needle-like point.

Dark green glazed container with flat bottom and back; other three sides form a rounded rectangle. Decoration on front side is a punctured flower. Three small holes are punched in the bottom and one large hole is through the centre of the back.