LACQUER SUTRA CASE

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

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

Lacquer

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in a dark brown slip on a white slip ground

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

Maki-e lacquer

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

Wood with metal fittings

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

Lacquer, red and black

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold 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, applied kirigane (cut gold), and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays

Takamakie lacquer, nashiji gold flakes, and kirigane gold foil on a roiro black lacquer ground, the lower sides with nashiji gold flakes and bokashi kinpun gold dust, the inside and the bottom with dense nashiji gold flakes