Rectangular Box with Carved Figural Decoration (9 sections)

Bronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color

Inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration inlaid in white slip; the inner rim banded with metal

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

Lacquer

Silver with parcel gilding

Lacquer on wood with decoration in tsugaru-nuri (layered sabi urushi [thick lacquer paste] and colored lacquers with sprinkled silver powder and raden [mother-of-pearl] flakes, textured with circular gouging), colored lacquers, gold, and sabi urushi utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, and with glazed-ceramic and raden inlays

Ivory plaques mounted on oak, with gilt bronze fittings

Light gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

Lacquer on wood

Lacquered Papier-mâché