Wooden vase with rounded shoulder and base and eight lobed segments. Decorated with gold lacquered birds and chrysanthemums with glass ? inset at the centres of each flower. Motifs of lotus, cranes, and fish are engraved on the top of the brass cover. Two pink and off-white blossoms, one green seed pod, four green lotus leaves, and one green arrow-shaped leaf, each with a long and bumbpy stem, are inserted into holes in the covering, and fit into holes on the inside bottom of the base.

Calligraphy of four large characters, with three smaller ones off to the left side; all written in black on a beige card, with a silver edge.

Ink holder (a) carved from ivory with an elongated, slightly curved handle, a bowl with a metal dish insert (b), and a lid that covers the bowl. A dragon and cloud pattern motif is incised into the handle on both sides, and four Chinese characters are incised into the top of the lid with a leaf border around the bowl. the designs are emphasized with black pigment (?).

Round, brass incense burner with tripod legs, lobed panels with birds, two handles and lid with finial of stylized lion.

A white glazed vase (part a) with crackle finish. Vase has a bulge on the lower part of its slim cylindrical body which flares at the bottom base and at the top to reveal a wide rim. Molded banana leaf on neck. T'ao t'ieh motifs and spiral band around rim. With circular wood stand (part b).

A small white ceramic vase (part a) with a rounded lower body which tapers into a slim cylindrical neck. The vase has a loose ring around each of the two handles on the neck. There is a key design incised along belly of vase. With circular wood stand (part b).

White bowl with angled sides and designs lightly pressed into the inside--motifs include two cicadas in flight, wavy parallel lines and flowers.

A small tripod burner (part a) that is light blue with a crackle finish. With circular, upward curved, wood stand (part b) that has three protrusions within which each of the three feet of the burner rest upon.

A small ceramic vase (part a) with a rounded lower body which tapers into a cylindrical neck that flares slightly at the rim. The vase has an apple green colour with a fish roe crackle finish. With circular wood stand (part b).

Plain vase (part a) speckled red and blue-black in colour with rounded lower body tapering into a long cylindrical neck. With wood stand (part b).