Snuffbox

White ware: white stoneware with clear glaze over molded elements

Lacquered Papier-mâché

Mixed copper alloy, lid possibly tinned

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

Porcelain with enamels and gold

Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.

Ceramic

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

Lacquer 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

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

Wood

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques; openwork bronze cover and copper interior fittings