Small Jade Quatrefoil Covered Box with Litchi Decor

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, brass chips, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Olive wood

Lacquer

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

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, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with glazed-ceramic, ivory, mother-of-pearl, coral, and malachite inlays; stone and metal fittings

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Silver

Pale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold

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

Lacquer, red and black