LACQUER LETTER BOX

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: molded ivory-hued earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green and caramel-yellow glazes

Approximately 20 sheets of brass, steel, and nickel silver joined with gray lead-tin solder

Stoneware with brown glaze

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.

Iron or bronze with decoration applied in gold; with small cartouche on the cover reading "Kingakuji" and a maker's mark in gold on the base; the interior of box and cover lined with sheet gold, the linings cursorily engraved with landscapes

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration and over decoration inlaid in black and white slips

Earthenware with three-color (sancai) lead glaze

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

Wood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior

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, and with sprinkled raden (mother-of-pearl) flakes

Lacquer on wood with Namban-style decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; metal fittings