probably Jiajing period, 1522-1566
2.2 x 5 x 3.9 cm (7/8 x 1 15/16 x 1 9/16 in.)
Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, brass chips, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard
19th centuryOlive wood
European?Lacquer
18th centuryJapaneseLight gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze
20th centuryJapaneseBlue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue
19th-20th centuryChineseLacquer 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
18th centuryJapaneseLacquer 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
16th-17th centuryJapaneseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised and carved decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th-11th centuryChineseSilver
18th centuryBritishPale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold
19th centuryChineseBronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color
19th-20th centuryKoreanLacquer, red and black
Chinese