Small Jade Quatrefoil Covered Box with Litchi Decor

Cizhou ware: light gray stoneware with clear glaze over decoration painted in a dark brown slip on a white slip ground

Bronze

White stoneware with ivory hued glaze

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

Lacquer

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, brass chips, and lacquer over brass layer on pasteboard

Lacquered Papier-mâché

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

Brass

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold, silver, and sabi urushi (thick lacquer paste) utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) and takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design) techniques and with sheet-lead and raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays; stone and metal fittings

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

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