Oblong snuff box

Lacquer on wood

Brass

Kamakura-bori; black and cinnabar lacquers over a carved wooden core

White stoneware with russet-brown glaze

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base

Pale greenish white nephrite

Mahogany and brass

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

Lacquer on paulownia wood

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the decoration painted in localized areas of discontinuous dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

Rosewood with metal (brass and copper?) fittings, the interior of the box lined with silk damask

Lacquer on wood with decoration in black and gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques; shakudo (copper-gold alloy) fittings