Box Lid with Kufic Inscription

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

Bronze

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) technique; stone and gilt-copper fittings

Box with mounted Plexiglas wheel and various sample materials

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.

Paper over board, cardboard

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with shibuchi (copper-silver alloy), brass, silver, and coral inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Silver

Wood, secured with wooden pegs, and with brass fittings

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze