Covered Circular Incense Box with Peony Decoration

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

Porcelain with enamels and gold

Pale green neprhite; the inscription picked out in gold

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) technique

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and shibuchi (copper-silver alloy); metal fittings

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, lacquer paste, lead, ceramic and shell inlays; stone and metal fittings

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

Lacquer on wood with decoration in zonsei-nuri (incised and painted lacquer) and gold utilizing the togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) technique; silk cord

Bronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color