Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver 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 gold and silver)

17th-18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Circular, Covered Cosmetic or Seal-Paste Box with Decoration of a Figure Attending a Vase of Blossoming Chrysanthemum Branches

Unknown Artist, 13th century

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

13th centuryKorean

Boxes

LOBED LACQUER WRITING BOX (SUZURIBAKO)

Unknown Artist, Edo period,

Lacquer

17th-19th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Small Circular Covered Box with Decoration of Kinkakuji Temple

Unknown Artist, 19th-mid 20th century

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

19th-20th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Covered Rectangular Box, the Cover with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, the Box with Four Cartouches round its Side Walls, the Cartouches Depicting Two Recumbent Spotted Deer amidst Pines, Two Standing Manchurian Cranes amidst Bamboo, Two Walking Spotted Deer amidst Pines, and a Turtle Emerging from Waves, all the Decorative Motifs on Box and Cover Set against a Diapered Ground

Unknown Artist, late 19th-early 20th century

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

19th-20th centuryKorean

Boxes

Enameled, Jeweled and Gilded Box

Boettcher-Bacherer, c.1930

Enamel

20th centuryGerman

Boxes

Kōdaiji Incense Container (Kōgō) with Shell and Chrysanthemum Design

Unknown Artist, Momoyama period, late 16th to early 17th century

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)

16th-17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Jade Circular Covered Incense Box with Peony Decor

Unknown Artist, 18th-early 19th century

Pale greenish white nephrite with white inclusions

18th-19th centuryChinese

Boxes

Plaited Sirih (Betel) Basket from Lampung Region of Sumatra

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Rattan

19th centuryIndonesian

Boxes

Namban Coffer-Shaped Chest with Flowering Plant Design

Unknown Artist, Momoyama period, late 16th to early 17th century

Lacquer on wood with Namban-style decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; metal fittings

16th-17th centuryJapanese