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Lacquerware collection, China, Qing dynasty. Lacquerware are objects decoratively covered with lacquer. Lacquerware includes small or large containers, tableware, a variety of small objects carried by people, and larger objects such as furniture and even coffins painted with lacquer.
Chinese lacquerwork, decorative work produced in China by the application of many coats of lacquer to a core material such as wood, bamboo, or cloth. The Chinese had discovered as early as the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046) that the juice of the lac tree (Rhus vernicifera), a naturally occurring.
Lacquer as an art form developed in China along two distinct paths—pictorial (or surface) decoration and carving of the lacquer. Rarely are the two techniques used in combination. In early times, surface decoration took the form of painting or inlay.
30 cze 2017 · Lacquer was a popular form of decoration and protective covering in ancient China. It was used to colour and beautify screens, furniture, bowls, cups, sculpture, musical instruments, and coffins, where it could be carved, incised, and inlaid to show off scenes from nature, mythology, and literature.
Chinese lacquerware covers a wide range of fine and decorative arts made of wood, basketry, metal, leather and more. Types of lacquerware include decorative pottery, dinnerware and tea sets, vases, musical instruments, and pieces of furniture.
Explore highlights from the museum’s superb collection of Chinese lacquer, including court accessories, scholars’ objects, luxury items, and household furniture.
Lacquerwork, certain metallic and wood objects to which coloured and frequently opaque varnishes called lacquer are applied. The word lacquer is derived from lac, a sticky resinous substance that is the basis of some lacquers. But the lacquer of China, Japan, and Korea, which is made from the sap.
