Explore the major technical and creative developments in arts and crafts of Japan after 1850 and visit the Ashmolean's tea house.
Impey, Oliver, and Joyce Seaman, Japanese Decorative Arts of the Meiji Period 1868-1912, Ashmolean Handbooks (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2005), no. 50 on p. 104, p. 9, illus. pp. 104-105
cloisonné, hirame, lacquer
Decorative technique in which wires are attached to a metal body and coloured enamels are applied between the wires.
irregularly shaped flakes of gold or silver made by flattening metal filings and scattered onto wet lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
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