Small Circular Covered Box with Floral Decoration

Ivory plaques mounted on oak, with gilt bronze fittings

Silver

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold

Dry lacquer; dark brown lacquer over fabric core, the decoration on the exterior in "takamakie" high relief gold and brown lacquer, the decoration on the interior and base in "nashiji" gold flakes; the base with signature reading "Mushū" in black lacquer

Pale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold

Wood

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with glazed-ceramic, ivory, mother-of-pearl, coral, and malachite inlays; stone and metal fittings

Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Marble

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration inlaid in white slip; the inner rim banded with metal

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) technique