Covered Circular Box with Dragon-and-Phoenix Decor against a Floral Arabesque

White ware: white stoneware with clear glaze over molded elements

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.

Rattan

Paper over board, cardboard

Lacquered wood with brass fittings and with inlays of mother of pearl, tortoiseshell, twisted wire, and metal filings

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and shibuchi (copper-silver alloy); metal fittings

Lacquer on wood

Silver

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

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

Pale greenish white nephrite

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