Large Storage Box with Decoration of Two Dragons Facing a Flaming Jewel

Maki-e designs in gold and silver on nashi-ji lacquer ground

Carved ivory

Lacquer on wood

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

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

Wood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.

Paper over board, cardboard

Lacquered wood: wooden core with light brown lacquer (possibly over a leather substrate) and inlays of mother-of-pearl, sharkskin or ray skin, wire, twisted wire, and metal fillings

Metal

Lacquer on wood with Kōdaiji-style decoration in gold 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 silver)