Covered Circular Incense Box with Peony Decoration

Silver

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, and with glazed-ceramic and tortoiseshell inlays

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

Cast iron with localized areas of gilding; the interior of the box and cover lined with hammered silver purportedly designed by Miochin (1624-1642)

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

Porcelain with enamels and gold

Yaozhou ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over carved decoration. From the Yaozhou kilns at Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

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

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

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

Tortoise shell, with brass fittings and painted lid