Namban Coffer-Shaped Chest with Flowering Plant Design

Silver

Kamakura-bori (lacquer on carved wood)

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration and over decoration inlaid in black and white slips

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

Pale greenish white nephrite with russet skin

Negoro ware; red and black lacquer on wood

Brass

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver)

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

Lacquer on wood

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