Rectangular shaped basin with four legs and two animal like handles. Designs of leaves, flowers, and a bird on both long sides. Dark patina ? or finish. Unmarked.

Iris decoration with two human figures wearing kimonos in foreground in relief. Decoration is in silver, copper, and gold on dark bronze ground.

Tall slim shape; design of a rooster on a plum branch inlaid near top with tail feathers falling nearly to the base. Base is marked with 5 characters

Bulbous vase with flared neck. Wave and bird design covered with red transparent enamel.

Seal made from one piece of bronze metal with an arched top through which is threaded a length of green cord that is knotted at the end. Chinese characters are incised in intaglio on the bottom face.

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.

Four small, rectangular, silver containers with cylindrical necks and hat-like lids; containers are attached to each other at the side with hinges. Characters indicating the containers' contents are engraved on one side, with elaborate symbols on other side.

Jade screen (part a) shows calligraphy. Engraved with handwriting of emperor ch'ien lung (part a). With stand (part b).

Bottle-shaped, hexagonal brass container with six scalloped feet, a flat top, and a round, vertical spout with cylindrical cap lid. The six sides are engraved with human figures, flowers, and characters, respectively.

Rounded brass vase with a short, circular foot and neck. Featured on the sides are two dragons in flight on a background engraved with clouds and various geometric and linear designs; dragons are in high relief, with applied three dimensional heads. The dragons encircle the body of the vase and are arranged tail to tail, head to head; a sphere in high relief is centred between their open jaws.