Small Jade Quatrefoil Covered Box with Litchi Decor

Bronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in a dark brown slip on a white slip ground

Metal structure with plastic laminate

Ivory plaques mounted on oak, with gilt bronze fittings

Lacquer on paulownia wood

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

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze; with molded inscription reading "Wu Jia He ___" on the base

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet gold and silver appliqué) techniques; metal fittings

Wood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver); metal fittings and silk cord

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.