Circular Covered Silver-Form Box with Decoration of a Blossoming Plant

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with underglaze cobalt-blue mark reading "Da Ming Longqing nian zao" within a double circle on the base

Silver with parcel gilding

Carved ivory

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

Red lacquer with gold paint

Light gray stoneware with iron-saturated russet-brown and black glaze

Lacquer on wood with decoration in wakasa-nuri (layered lacquer and gold foil over a thick base-coat impressed with various shapes and sprinkled with raden [mother-of-pearl] flakes), gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and togidashi maki-e (sprinkled design revealed by polishing) techniques, and with tsuishu (carved red lacquer), malachite, and carnelian inlays; stone and metal fittings

Lacquered wood with inlays of tortoiseshell, twisted wire, and metal filings

Ivory plaques mounted on oak, with gilt bronze fittings

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 with decoration in painted gold and with thin mother-of-pearl inlays; metal fittings

Pale greenish white nephrite; the inscription picked out in gold