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Raku ware: light gray earthenware with black glaze and with seal on underside shoulder reading, "Raku"

Ceramic

Enamelled porcelain: porcelain with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels, with inscriptions on base of each reading "Dainippon Kutani Shei-ei-do-sei"

Cloisonné enamel ware; polychrome enamels on brass; with incised signature reading "Kyōto Namikawa" on a silver plaque adhered to the base

Porcelain with dark brown glaze, the decoration in overglaze golden slip

Ceramic

Satsuma ware; white earthenware with decoration in overglaze polychrome enamels and with impressed mark on the base reading 'Taizan'

Satsuma ware; white earthenware with designs in overglaze polychrome enamels and with relief and three-dimensional applique decoration and applied stones

Lacquer on wood

Cloisonne enamel; polychrome enamels within brass cloisons on a copper base

Ceramic

Imari celadon ware: fine-grained, light gray stoneware with decoration in cobalt blue under a celadon glaze