lacquerwares

(noun)

Objects (including boxes, tablewares, buttons, etc.) decoratively covered with a clear or colored wood finish that dries by solvent evaporation or a curing process and produces a hard, durable finish; the finish is sometimes inlaid or carved.

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Examples of lacquerwares in the following topics:

  • Art Under the Zhou Dynasty

    • Under the Zhou Dynasty, many art forms expanded and became more detailed, including bronze, bronze inscriptions, painting, and lacquerware.
    • Lacquerware was a technique through which objects were decoratively covered by a wood finish and cured to a hard, durable finish.
    • During the Eastern Zhou period, a large quantity of lacquerware began to be produced.
    • These are Chinese Western Han (202 BC - 9 CE) era lacquerwares and lacquer tray unearthed from the 2nd-century-BCE Han Tomb No.1 at Mawangdui, Changsha, China in 1972.

  • The Decorative Arts under the Ming Dynasty

    • As with many art forms, the Ming Dynasty saw advancement in the realm of decorative arts such as porcelain and lacquerware.
    • In the decorative arts, carved designs in lacquerwares and designs glazed onto porcelain wares displayed intricate scenes similar in complexity to those in painting.
    • Carved designs in lacquerwares and designs glazed onto porcelain wares displayed intricate scenes similar in complexity to those in painting.

  • Ceramics under the Song Dynasty

    • Black and red lacquerwares of the Song period featured beautifully carved artwork of miniature nature scenes, landscapes, or simple decorative motifs.
    • Even though intricate ceramics and lacquerware, often painted with closely-viewed objects like birds on branches, were held in high esteem by the Song Chinese, landscape painting was paramount during this era.

  • Crafts in the Edo Period

    • Traditional Japanese handicrafts associated with the Edo period include temari (a toy handball for children), doll-making, lacquerware, and weaving.
    • The most famous lacquerer-painter of the time was Ogata Korin, who was the first artist to use mother of pearl and pewter in larger quantities in lacquerware.

  • Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

    • Rinpa artists worked in various formats, notably screens, fans, hanging scrolls, woodblock printed books, lacquerware, ceramics, and kimono textiles.
    • Both the affluent merchant town elite and the old Kyoto aristocratic families favored arts that followed classical traditions, and Kōetsu obliged by producing numerous works of ceramics, calligraphy, and lacquerware.

  • Cambodian Art

    • The height of Cambodian traditional lacquerware was between the 12th and 16th centuries; some examples of work from this era, including gilded Buddha images and betel boxes, have survived to the present day.
    • Lacquerware was traditionally colored black using burnt wood, representing the underworld; red using mercury, representing the earth; and yellow using arsenic, representing the heavens.

  • Art of the Middle Kingdom

    • The finished work can be mounted on hanging scrolls or handscrolls; traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.

  • Modern Chinese Painting

    • Traditional painting can also be done on album sheets, walls, lacquerware, folding screens, and other media.

  • Trade Under the Tang Dynasty

    • In the Middle East, the Islamic world coveted and purchased in bulk Chinese goods such as silks, lacquerwares, and porcelain wares.

  • Art under the Ming Dynasty

    • Carved designs in lacquerware and designs glazed onto porcelain wares displayed intricate scenes similar in complexity to those in painting.