Octagonal Hatbox with Auspicious Symbols

Lacquer on wood

Kamakura-bori; black and cinnabar lacquers over a carved wooden core

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, brass chips, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Silver

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold

Olive wood

Silver

Lacquer on wood with decoration in painted gold and with thin mother-of-pearl inlays; metal fittings

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province

Takamakie lacquer, nashiji gold flakes, and kirigane gold foil on a roiro black lacquer ground, the lower sides with nashiji gold flakes and bokashi kinpun gold dust, the inside and the bottom with dense nashiji gold flakes

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels