Small Circular Covered Box with Decoration of Kinkakuji Temple

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels

Paper over board, cardboard

Mahogany and brass

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

Pale greenish white nephrite with russet skin

Lacquered wood with brass fittings and with inlays of mother of pearl, tortoiseshell, twisted wire, and metal filings

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, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with shibuchi (copper-silver alloy), brass, silver, and coral inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

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

Iron or bronze with decoration applied in gold; with small cartouche on the cover reading "Kingakuji" and a maker's mark in gold on the base; the interior of box and cover lined with sheet gold, the linings cursorily engraved with landscapes

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; copper fittings

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

Lacquer on wood