LACQUER BOX, BLACK AND GOLD, DEPRESSED CORNERS.

Lacquer on wood with decoration in painted gold and with thin mother-of-pearl inlays; metal fittings

White stoneware with russet-brown 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

Maki-e designs in gold and silver lacquers on nashiji lacquer ground

Celadon ware: light gray stoneware with light bluish-green celadon glaze with a lavender splash on cover; with a square seal reading "Minoru" mpressed into the unglazed base before firing

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

Lacquer on wood

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the "hiramaki-e" (low-relief sprinkled design) and "kanagai" (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques

Lacquer on wood

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and aokin (gold-silver) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground) techniques; gilt-copper fittings [tray with decoration of cranes in takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) may be a later replacement]