Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with glazed-ceramic, ivory, mother-of-pearl, coral, and malachite inlays; stone and metal fittings

18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Covered Circular Box, the Cover with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, the Box with Four Cartouches round its Side Walls, the Cartouches Depicting a Turtle, a Crab, a Fish, and a Shrimp, all the Decorative Motifs on Box and Cover Set against a Diapered Ground

Unknown Artist, late 19th-early 20th century

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

19th-20th centuryKorean

Boxes

Circular Covered Incense or Seal-Paste Box with Decoration of Figures in a Landscape

Unknown Artist, 19th century

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue; with underglaze cobalt blue mark reading "Da Qing Yongzheng nian zhi" on the base

19th centuryChinese

Boxes

INLAID SUTRA BOX

Unknown Artist, 19th-20th century

Wood

19th-20th centuryThai

Boxes

LACQUER BOX, BLACK AND GOLD, DEPRESSED CORNERS.

Unknown Artist

Lacquer on wood

Japanese

Boxes

Covered Circular Box with Quatrefoil Design

Unknown Artist, 206 BCE - 220 CE

Silver with parcel gilding

3rd century BCE-3rd century CEChinese

Boxes

Small Jade Quatrefoil Covered Box with Litchi Decor

Unknown Artist, probably Jiajing period, 1522-1566

Pale greenish white nephrite with russet skin

16th centuryChinese

Boxes

Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) with Intertwined Pine and Cherry Tree Design

Unknown Artist, Early Edo period, early 17th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, 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, and with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and silver inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

17th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Small Circular Covered Box with Lotus Decor

Unknown Artist, probably 13th century

Qingbai ware: molded porcelain with pale sky-blue glaze

13th centuryChinese

Boxes

Covered Circular Box with Decoration of Four Butterflies Surrounding a Stylized Flower on a Beaded Ground

Unknown Artist, 9th-early 10th century

Monochrome lead-glazed ware: molded white earthenware with lead-fluxed emerald-green glaze on the exterior and lead-fluxed clear glaze mottled with green on the interior. Probably from kilns at Luoyang or Gongxian, Henan province.

9th-10th centuryChinese