Carved with armor, gun, arrows, scroll, floral pattern.
4.13 x 8.89 x 5.08 cm (1 5/8 x 3 1/2 x 2 in.)
Lacquer on woven bamboo with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays
17th centuryJapaneseSilver with parcel gilding
3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChineseOpaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard
19th centuryWood with metal fittings
20th centuryKoreanWood with inscribed characters in gold on lid and interior
18th centuryChineseLacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques
17th-18th centuryJapaneseRed lacquer
ChineseEnameled 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
16th centuryChineseLacquer 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 with decoration in gold utilizing the "hiramaki-e" (low-relief sprinkled design) and "kanagai" (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques
18th-19th centuryJapaneseLacquer on wood
JapaneseEarthenware with green splashed lead glaze
9th-10th centuryChinese