Tall Foliate Box with Cover

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

Blue-and-white ware: porcelaneous white stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt-blue

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, with applied kirigane (cut gold and silver) and with shibuchi (copper-silver alloy), brass, silver, and coral inlays; stone, metal, and enamel fittings

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design) technique and with raden (mother-of-pearl) inlays

Paper over board, cardboard

Lacquer on wood

Lacquer

Silver

Wood, secured with wooden pegs, and with brass fittings

Tortoise shell

Blue-and-white ware: porcelain with decoration reserved in white against a cobalt blue ground, the central medallion on the cover with molded decoration under pale, sky-blue glaze

Painted celadon ware: molded light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration painted in copper-red and in black and white slips. Reportedly recovered in Changhŭng, South Chŏlla province, in 1963.