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‘Historical Buddha Sculpture’, made from a wood and metal wire frame wrapped in hemp cloth soaked in lacquer with glass and traces of pigment and gilding on the coating. China, Sui or early Tang dynasty (late 6th or early 7th Read More …
Ancient Heavenly King Bust (One of four Buddhist gods who watch over each of the cardinal directions of the world) found in Japan: “This sculpture has been made by superimposing layers of soaked hemp lacquer: hemp can be woven ( lower Read More …
‘A lacquer worker and turner finishing a hookah’, India 1870 “The object to be lacquered is turned from hard wood, usually shisham [Dalbergia]or box. After being smoothed and cleaned it is again fixed in the turners’ frame (a kind of Read More …