Circular Covered Silver-Form Box with Decoration of a Blossoming Plant

Metal

Watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Rattan

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet gold and silver appliqué) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with sheet-lead inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Silver, gilt

Silver

Han painted lacquer: reddish-brown and black lacquers over wooden core, with designs painted in lacquer and with metal mounts (probably tin)

Lacquer

Earthenware with green splashed lead glaze

Mixed copper alloy, lid possibly tinned

Metal

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