Box Lid with Kufic Inscription

Opaque watercolor, gold-colored pigments, and lacquer on pasteboard

White stoneware with clear glaze

Earthenware with green splashed lead glaze

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

Silver

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

Red lacquer

Celadon ware: light gray stoneware with light bluish-green celadon glaze with a lavender splash on cover; with a square seal reading "Minoru" mpressed into the unglazed base before firing

Koryŏ-style inlaid celadon ware: light gray stoneware with celadon glaze over decoration inlaid in black and white slips

Silver

Enameled blue-and-white ware, "wucai" type: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze cobalt blue and overglaze polychrome enamels; with spurious overglaze red enamel mark reading "Chenghua nian zhi" on the base