Storage Case for a Bronze Mirror

Lacquer

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration partially inlaid in black and white slips

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

Lacquer

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: molded white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed clear glaze mottled with green on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

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 kanagai (sheet gold and silver appliqué) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with sheet-lead inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Ivory with velvet lining

Rosewood with metal (brass and copper?) fittings, the interior of the box lined with silk damask

Wood with metal fittings

Silver with parcel gilding

Olive wood

Wood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior