Box Lid with Kufic Inscription

Lacquer

Stoneware with brown glaze

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Silver

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

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

Box with mounted Plexiglas wheel and various sample materials

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

Silver

Lacquer on wood

Painted celadon ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in copper-red and in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered in Changhŭng, South Chŏlla province, in 1963.

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip