Document Case with Lock in the Form of a Tortoise and with Decoration of a Stalk of Weathered Bamboo and a Scrolling, Fruiting Grapevine

Red lacquer

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

Lacquer on wood

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

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, lacquer paste, lead, ceramic and shell inlays; stone and metal fittings

Pale green neprhite; the inscription picked out in gold

Lacquer on wood

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground) techniques, applied kirigane (cut gold), and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays

Temmoku-type ware: light gray stoneware with black glaze, the decoration painted in overglaze iron-brown slip

Metal

Bronze

Tortoise shell, with brass fittings and painted lid