Enameled, Jeweled and Gilded Box

Lacquer on wood with decoration in gold utilizing the hiramaki-e (low-relief sprinkled design), nashiji ("pear-skinned" ground), and harigaki (linear incising) techniques; lead-alloy fittings

Silver and wax

Box containing reproductions of seventy-one works by Duchamp

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

Maki-e lacquer

Silver

Wood

Huangpu ware: light gray stoneware covered all over with white slip, the decoration painted in localized areas of discontinuous dark brown glaze. From the Huangpu kilns, Tongchuan, Shaanxi province

White ware: white stoneware with clear glaze over molded elements

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

Tortoise shell, with brass fittings and painted lid

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