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Ceramic

Watercolor on ivory

Bronze

Handscroll fragment mounted as a hanging scroll; ink, colors and gold on paper

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and silver utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and kanagai (sheet gold and silver appliqué) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with sheet-lead inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Wood, multiple-woodblock construction; with polychromy and gilding

Light gray limestone (known as greenstone); Mon-Gupta style

Etching on off white wove paper

Iris prints with silkscreen varnish

Etching on heavy cream antique laid paper

Gray stoneware with incised, combed, and openwork decoration. Reportedly recovered from a tomb in Ch'angnyŏng, South Kyŏngsang province.

Whole plate daguerreotype

Etching and drypoint printed with considerable plate tone in brownish-black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Aquatint on off white wove paper

Ferruginous Limestone