Box with Portrait

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

Silver with parcel gilding; with inscription incised on base and cover

Han painted lacquer: reddish-brown and black lacquers over wooden core, with designs painted in lacquer and with metal mounts (probably tin)

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), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver)

Lacquered wood with brass fittings and with inlays of mother of pearl, tortoiseshell, twisted wire, and metal filings

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 Wanli nian zhi" within a double-square set within a "ruyi" cloud-scroll border on the base

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in a dark brown slip on a white slip ground

Lacquer on wood with decoration in painted gold and with thin mother-of-pearl inlays; metal fittings

Pale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold

Wood

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

Lacquer