Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) with Design of Hares and Autumn Grasses

Silver

Maki-e lacquer;

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

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

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

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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard

Wood

Approximately 20 sheets of brass, steel, and nickel silver joined with gray lead-tin solder

Light gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base