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Lacquer dish with Chinese character for longevity, mid 16th century Maki-e sake bottle with Tokugawa clan's mon, Japan, Edo period Lacquer plate, Nam Định province, Vietnam, Nguyễn dynasty Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal.
Jules-John Dunand was born on 20 May 1877 in Lancy, Switzerland.He later adopted the French first name of Jean, and became a naturalized French citizen in 1922. At the age of fourteen, he began studying sculpture at the Geneva School of Industrial Arts, where he won several prizes and received his diploma.
The best known lacquer, an urushiol-based lacquer common in East Asia, is obtained from the dried sap of Toxicodendron vernicifluum. Other types of lacquers are processed from a variety of plants and insects. The traditions of lacquer work in Southeast Asia, South Asia and the Americas are also ancient and
The production of lacquerware involves a process of applying a ground layer, [6] oftentimes lacquer mixed with other substances such as clay or a layer of fabric, followed by many very thin layers of processed lacquer to a substrate, typically wood, and allowing them to dry completely, [6] then curing and polishing.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet (French: [ʒɑ̃ pjɛʁ ʒœnɛ]; born 3 September 1953) is a French filmmaker.His films combine fantasy, realism, and science fiction to create idealized realities or to give relevance to mundane situations.
Like Olinalá, lacquer is an industry and sold widely in Mexico, but the production is not as sophisticated in design. [2] These wares often have a bright red background due to the use of a commercial oil paint, and include toys, gourds and gourd pieces used to create carrying apparatus and jewelry.
An acetate disc (also known as a lacquer, test acetate, dubplate, or transcription disc) is a type of phonograph record generally used from the 1930s to the late 1950s for recording and broadcast purposes. Despite their name, "acetate" discs do not contain any acetate. Lacquer-coated discs are used for the production of records.
Maki-e Maki-e enlargement. Maki-e (蒔絵, literally: sprinkled picture (or design)) is a Japanese lacquer decoration technique in which pictures, patterns, and letters are drawn with lacquer on the surface of lacquerware, and then metal powder such as gold or silver is sprinkled and fixed on the surface of the lacquerware.