Jewel Box

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

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province

Metal structure with plastic laminate

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against a cobalt blue ground, the central medallion on the cover with molded decoration under pale, sky-blue glaze

Mixed copper alloy, lid possibly tinned

Approximately 20 sheets of brass, steel, and nickel silver joined with gray lead-tin solder

Koryŏ-style inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips

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

Metal

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

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