Covered Circular Box (One of a Pair)

Rattan

Lacquered wood with inlays of tortoiseshell, twisted wire, and metal filings

Red 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.

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the decoration painted in localized areas of discontinuous dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Lacquered wood: wooden core with orange-red lacquer over black lacquer (over a paper substrate); with metal fittings

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

Silver

Pale greenish white nephrite

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

Marble

Carved rhinoceros horn