LACQUER LETTER BOX

Silver

Incised celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration

Lacquer on wood with decoration in black, gold, silver, and red utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques

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

Kamakura-bori; black and cinnabar lacquers over a carved wooden core

Metal

Wood

Lacquer on wood

Bronze

Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Silver

Painted celadon ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in copper-red and in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered in Changhŭng, South Chŏlla province, in 1963.