Covered Circular Box (One of a Pair)

White stoneware with russet-brown glaze

Earthenware with green splashed lead glaze

Lacquer

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

Silver

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

Tortoise shell

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques

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

Porcelain with enamels and gold

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