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

18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Circular Box with Domed Lid

Hamada Shōji, late 1920s

White stoneware with russet-brown glaze

20th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Document Case with Lock in the Form of a Tortoise and with Decoration of a Stalk of Weathered Bamboo and a Scrolling, Fruiting Grapevine

Unknown Artist, probably late 18th-19th century

Bamboo with carved and stained surface and with brass fittings

18th-19th centuryKorean

Boxes

Covered Circular Box with Quatrefoil Design

Unknown Artist, 206 BCE - 220 CE

Silver with parcel gilding

3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinese

Boxes

Covered box with foliated sides

Unknown Artist, 8th-9th century

White stoneware with clear glaze

8th-9th centuryChinese

Boxes

Small covered box

Unknown Artist, 8th-9th century

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

8th-9th centuryChinese

Boxes

Covered Box in the Form of an "X" with Dragon-and-Cloud Decor

Unknown Artist, Longqing period, 1567-1572

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base

16th centuryChinese