Nijincai lacquer

Clay gold lacquer is a traditional lacquer ware in Ningbo, which can be divided into along-flower, flat-flower and floating-flower according to the unevenness of the painted object. Clay gold color paint is mainly made by grinding thin gold and silver foil into powder on wooden blanks, adding paint, painting or filling, and carefully decorating with mussel shell pieces, lenses, sand gold and powder leaching. There are also bamboo chips and bamboo braids. The "Tianyi Pavilion" once contained bamboo woven in the Ming Dynasty, on which the Dark Eight Immortals were piled and decorated with gold. Clay gold colored lacquers enjoyed a good reputation in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the golden lacquerware left over at that time is still golden, which shows the good quality of clay gold. In recent years, a number of antique handicrafts produced in Ningbo, such as "Drum Stool" and "Twelve Golden Hairpins in a Red Mansion", are exquisitely made, with lifelike figures, bright flashes and a sense of subjectivity, which are very popular with foreign businessmen. (Ningbo) Clay gold colored paint takes China raw lacquer as the main raw material, with wooden tires as the main raw material, as well as bamboo chips and woven tires. It is vivid and lifelike in shape, rich in three-dimensional sense, colorful in gold and silver, dazzling and pleasing to the eye, with beautiful layout and exquisitely carved. Production is divided into three categories: floating flowers, flat flowers and sunken flowers, which is one of the main export handicrafts in Ningbo.
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