Off-white stoneware with pale celadon glaze over decoration applied in white slip, the decoration embellished with incising and with touches of iron-brown slip in localized areas. Possibly from the Yaozhou kilns, near Tongchuan, Shaanxi province.

9th centuryChinese

Boxes

Covered Circular Box (One of a Pair)

Unknown Artist, 475 BCE - 221 BCE

Silver with parcel gilding; with inscription incised on base and cover

5th-3rd century BCEChinese

Boxes

Storage Case for a Bronze Mirror

Unknown Artist, 18th-19th century

Lacquered wood: wooden core with orange-red lacquer over black lacquer (over a paper substrate); with metal fittings

18th-19th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Covered Rectangular Box with Movable Handle and Cover Lock, the Sliding Cover with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, the Box with Three Cartouches round its Side Walls, the Cartouches Depicting a Doe, Fawn, and Crane amidst Pines, a Crane and Tortoise amidst Waves and Clouds, and Two Deer Walking amidst Pines and Bamboo, all the Decorative Motifs on Box and Cover Set against a Diapered Ground

Unknown Artist, late 19th-early 20th century

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

19th-20th centuryKorean

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Document Box (Ryōshibako) with Gong, Vajra, and Sutra Design

Ogawa Haritsu, Early to Mid Edo period, late 17th to early 18th century

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

17th-18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Covered Hexagonal Box, the Cover with a Stylized "Double Hŭi" Character, the Box with Characters round its Sides Walls Reading Su, Pok, Kang, Nyŏng, Ta, and Nam, all the Characters on Box and Cover Set against a Nwi-mun (Chinese, Leiwen) Ground

Unknown Artist, late 19th-early 20th century

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

19th-20th centuryKorean

Boxes

Covered box with foliated sides

Unknown Artist, 8th-9th century

White stoneware with clear glaze

8th-9th centuryChinese

Boxes

Inkstone Box (Suzuribako) with Tiger and Bamboo Design

Unknown Artist, Mid Edo period, 18th century

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), takamaki-e (high-relief sprinkled design), and kanagai (sheet-gold appliqué) techniques, and with applied kirigane (cut gold); stone and metal fittings

18th centuryJapanese

Boxes

Jade Circular Covered Incense Box with Peony Decor

Unknown Artist, 18th-early 19th century

Pale greenish white nephrite with white inclusions

18th-19th centuryChinese