Square Covered Box with Slightly Domed Lid

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

Lacquer on wood

Rattan

Porcelain with enamels and gold

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold); stone and metal fittings

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Ivory with velvet lining

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) technique; stone and gilt-copper fittings

Light gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer over tin layer on pasteboard