lacquerware

Examples of lacquerware 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.

• 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.

• 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.