Scholar's Chest with Hinged Cover, Lock, and Two Side Handles and with "Tae-Geuk" Decor

Metal

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 harigaki (linear incising) techniques; lead-alloy fittings

Watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip

Dry lacquer; dark brown lacquer over fabric core, the decoration on the exterior in "takamakie" high relief gold and brown lacquer, the decoration on the interior and base in "nashiji" gold flakes; the base with signature reading "Mushū" in black lacquer

Pale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold

Wood

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

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration inlaid in white slip; the inner rim banded with metal

Ivory with velvet lining