This is a Ming Dynasty Yongle Reign Sutra Box
A Gwailo's View of Han Zi ! A Blog featuring my experiments with Han Zi and digital typographic art and articles on Chinese derived characters. Also some articles on Chinese characters in general and their use of multiple Asian languages.
Saturday 11 July 2020
Chinese Gold Lacquer Box
The Japanese did not invnet using gold in Lacquer. Oh they refined its usage and technique in all sorts of beuatiful and wonderful ways developing maki-e and other techniques but while Chinese lacquer ware is best known for carved lacquet or inlay work with shell they did have a gold "engraving" technique.
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