Introduction to Gold Lacquer Inlay

In China's ancient handicraft industry, an ancient category still exists today, which is known as one of the "Eight Masterpieces of Yanjing", the gold lacquer inlay. Gold lacquer inlay is an important category of traditional Chinese lacquerware with a history of 7,000 years. Historically, Beijing is an important lacquer production area, such as the "Lacquer Bureau" in the Yuan Dynasty, the "Orchard Factory" in the Ming Dynasty, and the "Manufacturing Office" in the Qing Dynasty, which laid a solid technical foundation for the development of Beijing's lacquer ware. The technical foundation was laid for the development of Beijing lacquerware. Although the lacquerware for the successive generations of government-run, but the Qing Dynasty, there are also folk lacquerware workshop, the royal family also in the folk collection of fine works of art.

So, what is "gold lacquer inlay"? The earliest and most widely used lacquer art is lacquer painting, which is naturally inseparable from the combination of lacquer and pigment. In addition to pigment, is the combination of lacquer and gold. Such as gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, bump gold, and so on. The Ming Dynasty Lacquer Art monograph "Painting Record" called "gold painting", a "gold lacquer". Covering the color painting, carving and filling, ash and other crafts can be collectively referred to as "gold lacquer". The combination of "gold lacquer" and "inlay" process is called "gold lacquer inlay".