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What is this box called a lacquer box?

Lacquer carving

Lacquer carving is a traditional Han arts and crafts, also known as tick red, and its technology began in the Han, Tang. The process is extremely complex. Lacquer, tire making, polishing, doing the annealing and so on, the process is complicated, take a long time, so the large lacquer carving is also extremely expensive, in ancient times has also been the royal nobles of the furnishings. Lacquer carving is a kind of technique of engraving patterns on the flat lacquer tires piled up. It was introduced to Beijing in the Yuan and Ming dynasties. Through the painstaking research of the lacquer carvers, the technique of lacquer carving was gradually perfected and matured, and the lacquerware became the arts and crafts with the characteristics of Beijing. Beijing lacquer carving, Hunan Hunan embroidery, Jiangxi Jingdezhen porcelain, known as "China's three long arts and crafts". Over the years, lacquer carving with its unique technology, exquisite and gorgeous without losing the solemnity of the shape by the lacquer carving art lovers at home and abroad.