carved lacquerware

Beijing carved lacquer was founded in the Tang Dynasty, with a history of more than 1,400 years. It was loved and enjoyed by emperors and concubines in past dynasties, and it belongs to court art.. After 1949, lacquer carving went from the palace to the society and became a national handicraft for cultural exchanges with people all over the world. Carved lacquer is unique, mostly made of brass as inner tube, with bodiless (cloth tire) and wooden tire. The tire shape is coated with natural lacquer, and the general carved lacquer should be coated with at least 70 layers, while the high-grade carved lacquer with hollow carving should be coated with more than 500 layers of lacquer, and the paint thickness is about 300 mm. And then finely carved on the paint layer. Traditional carved lacquer is mainly red and black and yellow, while modern carved lacquer is mainly red and black, and has developed many colors such as green, blue, brown, white and orange. The traditional carving methods are only relief and shallow carving, but today's artists have created round carving, semi-hollow carving and full hollow carving. After lacquer carving, there are dozens of processes such as grinding, lining and baking, all of which are manual operations. It takes at least 3 months to finish a piece of lacquer carving, and it takes 1 to 2 years at most.
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