Bottom Tier from a Set of Stacked Quatrefoil Boxes with Stylized Floral Decor

Rosewood with metal (brass and copper?) fittings, the interior of the box lined with silk damask

Marble

Approximately 20 sheets of brass, steel, and nickel silver joined with gray lead-tin solder

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware with dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Yaozhou county, Shaanxi province

Celadon ware: light gray stoneware with light bluish-green celadon glaze with a lavender splash on cover; with a square seal reading "Minoru" mpressed into the unglazed base before firing

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

Yue ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over incised decoration. From the Yue kilns at Shanglinhu, Zhejiang province.

Paper over board, cardboard

Liao sancai ("three-color") ware: molded ivory-hued earthenware with lead-fluxed, emerald-green and caramel-yellow glazes

Takamakie lacquer, nashiji gold flakes, and kirigane gold foil on a roiro black lacquer ground, the lower sides with nashiji gold flakes and bokashi kinpun gold dust, the inside and the bottom with dense nashiji gold flakes

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious overglaze red enamel mark reading "Chenghua nian zhi" on the base