18th century
Olive wood
European?Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and e-nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques
17th centuryJapaneseLacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with textured sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays
17th-18th centuryJapaneseLacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques
16th-17th centuryJapaneseLacquer on wood
17th-19th centuryJapaneseLacquer on paulownia wood
JapaneseSilver
19th centuryPersianBronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color
19th-20th centuryKoreanTemmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip
20th centuryJapaneseLacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques
18th centuryJapaneseLacquer
Japanese