Circular Covered Incense or Seal-Paste Box with Decoration of Figures in a Landscape

Silver

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; stone and metal fittings

Mixed copper alloy, lid possibly tinned

Stoneware with brown glaze

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.

Red lacquer

Wood

Silver, gilt

Lacquer on wood with decoration in sumiaka (exposed cloth ground) and gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques and with gold and silver inlays; metal fittings

Grayish nephrite with off-white inclusions

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) 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 gold and silver) and silver inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings