Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and e-nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques; metal interior fittings

17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Circular Covered Incense Box, the Domed Cover with Flattened Top

Unknown Artist, perhaps Tang dynasty, 8th-9th century

White ware: white stoneware with clear glaze over molded elements

8th-9th centuryChinese

Boxes

Covered Rectangular Box with Movable Handle and Cover Lock, the Sliding Cover with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, the Box with Three Cartouches round its Side Walls, Each Cartouch with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, 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

Square Covered Box with Slightly Domed Lid

Kawai Hirotsugu, Shōwa period, mid 20th century

Light gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze

20th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Incense Container (Kōgō) with Itinerant Monk’s Pack and Ivy Design

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, 17th century

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

Olive wood

Circular Covered Box with Decoration of a Dragon Pursuing a Flaming Jewel amid Stylized Clouds

Unknown Artist, 17th century

Cast iron with localized areas of gilding; the interior of the box and cover lined with hammered silver purportedly designed by Miochin (1624-1642)

17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Rectangular Tooth-Black Box (Ohagurobako) with Plum Tree Design

Unknown Artist, Style of the Muromachi period, late 15th or early 16th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, applied kirigane (cut gold and silver), and [later] raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; metal fittings

15th-16th centuryJapanese