6th-7th century CE
2.8 x 7.8 cm (1 1/8 x 3 1/16 in.)
Hagop Kevorkian collection, gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1975.
Lacquer, brown with red underlayer.
ChineseYue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.
10th centuryChineseBronze, with damascened overlays of cut sheet silver, the bronze with induced gunmetal gray surface color
19th-20th centuryKoreanMetal
18th-19th centuryRussianMaki-e designs in gold and silver on nashi-ji lacquer ground
19th centuryJapaneseLacquer on paulownia wood
JapaneseLacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) technique and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays
17th-18th centuryJapaneseLacquer
JapanesePaper over board, cardboard
19th centuryGermanLacquer on wood with Kōdaiji-style decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and e-nashiji (pictorial "pear-skinned" ground) techniques
17th centuryJapaneseRattan
19th centuryIndonesianLacquer 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 centuryJapanese