Chinese vase lacquer Cinnabar landscape bouquets flowers China chinese nineteenth
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Vase with long neck lacquer Cinnabar * rich decoration of bouquets of flowers and plant arabesques, from China, XIXth century.
This vase is in good condition. He was pierced in the background.
A note: tiny wear and dirt of time, see photos.
In Europe as in India, lacquer is a substance like a gum deposited on trees by certain species of insects, such as "tachardia lacca". This substance harvested from the tree has been used to imitate Far Eastern lacquer on Japanese or sinister furniture since the 16th century. The lacquer, dehydrated and purified, contains according to the qualities up to 80% of "urushiol" (acid of lacquer). This material, thus pure, can be used directly as a transparent substance. If one wishes to obtain a colored matter, it is enough to add special pigments, the cinnabar for the red, the soot of pine or lamp for the black one, and later the sulphate of iron for the black one, the sulphide of arsenic for green and brown. For the white, mixture of lacquer and lead carbonate (white lead), already used before our era on Chinese lacquer