Small Round Incense Box

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 textured sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays

Silver with parcel gilding

Silver

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

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.

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

Pale green neprhite; the inscription picked out in gold

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

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

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

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

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, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver); metal fittings and silk cord