Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; stone and metal fittings

17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) with Blossoming Chrysanthemum Design

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 17th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) technique; stone and gilt-copper fittings

17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Tintype box

Unidentified Artist, c. 1860

Wood

19th centuryAmerican

Boxes

Violin Case with Landscape Decoration

Unknown Artist, Meiji period, circa 1868-1895

Lacquer on wood with decoration in black and gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques; shakudo (copper-gold alloy) fittings

Red lacquer

Incense Container (Kōgō) with Pea Pod and Vine Design

Ogata Kōrin 尾形光琳, Early Edo period, late 17th century-early 18th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with textured sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays

17th-18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Miniature Sewing Case

Unknown Artist

European?

Boxes

Box for "Pair of Folding Fans with Paintings by Jiang Tingxi and Calligraphy by Wang Youdun"

Unknown Artist, Kangxi period, first third 18th century

Wood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior

18th centuryChinese

Boxes

Drawered Hand Box (Tebako) with Four-Season Motif Design and Various Interior Cosmetic Boxes with Scrolling Floral Designs

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, late 17th - early 18th century

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 harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and shibuchi (copper-silver alloy); metal fittings

17th-18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Small Jade Square Covered Box with Rounded Corners and with Stylized Floral Decor (One of Two)

Unknown Artist, late 18th-19th century, probably early 19th century

Pale greenish white nephrite

18th-19th centuryChinese

Boxes

Circular Covered Incense or Seal-Paste Box with Decoration of Figures in a Landscape

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" on the base

19th centuryChinese