Japanese lacquerware

Purchases in department stores are generally expensive, but an exception is the traditional Japanese lacquerware bowls.

The most important object is a Japanese lacquerware wooden box with maki-e decoration.

He created Japanese lacquerware based on the Maki-e style.

Scattered throughout was antique Japanese lacquerware, writing boxes.

All but the best Japanese lacquerware, ceramics and paintings are off by half from the 1990 peak, a Christie's specialist said.

Famous for beautiful Japanese lacquerware produced around Wajima City.

As a design motif, it appears on Japanese lacquerware, metalwork and porcelain and in colored woodcuts.

"I collect old Japanese lacquerware as well as antique French and Dutch glassware," he said.

Japanese lacquerware (japan)

An exhibition of Japanese lacquerware boxes and tea caddies from the Alfred Baur collection will be at the gallery through June 24.

These works join the traditions of European marquetry and Japanese lacquerware, but that is only the beginning of their mixings of media and cultures.

Japan had no strong glassmaking tradition, so Kyohei Fujita invented one by translating the splendor of 17th- and 18th-century Japanese lacquerware into glass boxes.

Excavated chashi have revealed Japanese lacquerware, ceramics, ironware, and swords, as well as beads perhaps from Sakhalin; consumables included rice, sake, and tobacco.

IN "Rainbows and Shimmering Bridges: Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware," an exhibition opening today at the Japan Society, an ancient craft has been applied to new, bold forms.

In Japan lacquer painting is secondary to techniques such as silver inlay, Maki-e on Japanese lacquerware, and carving on Kamakura-bori, and Ryukyuan lacquerware.

MIDTOWN Japanese Lacquerware In Many Modern Varieties For centuries, traditional Japanese lacquer has been admired for its beauty and craftsmanship.

And if President Bush expects to be presented with some choice Japanese lacquerware or perhaps a samurai sword during Mr. Koizumi's visit to Washington this coming weekend, he is likely to be disappointed.

The oxidation and polymerization of urushiol in the tree's sap in the presence of moisture allows it to form a hard lacquer, which is used to produce traditional Chinese, Korean and Japanese lacquerware.

There merchants from New Spain traded silver from the Americas for Chinese silks, damasks, jewelry, and porcelains as well as Indian cottons, Japanese lacquerware, Indonesian spices, and Philippine cinnamon and beeswax.

Thirty-eight artists will display 58 pieces of lacquer sculpture, painted screens, bowls and other lacquer objects in "Rainbows and Shimmering Bridges: Contemporary Japanese Lacquerware," which opens on Thursday at the Japan Society Gallery.

Momoko Sano, the Martha Stewart brand manager here, said, "In her house, she has a Japanese teapot, Japanese plates, Japanese fabrics, Japanese lacquerware - she loves Japanese lacquerware."

Japanese lacquerware (historically referred to as Japan, analogous to Chinese ceramics) is a broad category of fine and decorative arts, as lacquer has been used in paintings, prints, and on a wide variety of objects from Buddha statues to bento boxes for food.

By putting, as it does, Benin sculptures and Leonardo drawings, Japanese lacquerware and Aztec stone carvings, Diquis jewelry and frescoes by Botticelli on roughly equal footing, "Circa 1492" argues for an ecumenism that is both timely and welcome.

The museum's Asian collection includes a number of objects, including "Shang Dynasty bronze vessels, Tang Dynasty Tomb figures, and Qing Dynasty textiles from China; East Asian bronzes; and Korean ceramics, as well as Japanese lacquerware, calligraphy, and prints."