What are the common surface painting techniques of traditional Chinese lacquer wood furniture?

According to the different techniques, the painting process can be divided into:

Gold Stroke

On the surface of lacquer ware, the decorative method of depicting patterns in gold color. Stroke gold on black lacquer is the most common, followed by vermilion or purple ground. It is also referred to as the "gold lacquer decoration method".

Fill Lacquer

Zunsheng Bazhu: "Xuande have fill lacquer vessels, to color thick lacquer piled up into the flowers, smoothed as a painting ......" "Imperial Beijing and other things," fill lacquer carved into flowers and birds, color filled with thick lacquer, smoothed as a painting ...... "This kind of pile carving after filling color grinding to show the pattern of the painting technique called "fill lacquer".

Spider

Spider is also known as "spider", "spider", is made of thin slices of shell figures, birds, animals, flowers and plants embedded in the carving or lacquer lacquer objects on the decorative techniques. The origin of this craft method is very early, the Zhou Dynasty has been popular. From the extant Tang Dynasty studded objects, it seems that there has been a very high level. Cao Zhao, "Ge Gu Lun Yao": "studded vessels, out of Jiangxi Ji'an Province Luling County. Song dynasty in the government and the old doers, but firm paint or have embedded copper wire is very good. Yuan Dynasty when the rich and powerful not limited to years and months to do, make paint firm and lovely characters."

Dot conch

Dot conch lacquerware is a traditional Chinese Han crafts. 1966 Beijing Yuan dynasty ruins unearthed a lacquer plate fragments with conch inlaid with Guanghan Palace. The Ming Dynasty was the heyday of lacquer ware, and the craftsmanship level has reached a fairly exquisite degree. With shells, glow-in-the-dark snails and other raw materials, refined into a thin, cicada-like conch, and then thin conch "point" in the lacquer blanks, so the name "point conch". Because of the point of conch material than the general stud inlay for thin, and soft, so also known as "thin stud" and "soft stud". As of 2010, Yangzhou and other places, there are still point screw lacquer production.

Gold and silver flat off

The gold and silver sheet carved into a variety of figures, birds, animals, flowers and other patterns, with glue in the polished smooth lacquer tires, to be dry, the full range of two or three layers of lacquer and then grinding to show the gold and silver patterns, so that the pattern and the bottom of the lacquer to achieve the same degree of flatness, and then push the light becomes a beautiful flat off the lacquerware. Gold and silver pattern surface wider places can also be carved fine lines, but can not be carved through the gold and silver pieces. This decorative method, fine labor, materials and noble, but the gold and silver light and the luster of the lacquer color reflect each other extremely gorgeous, is very valuable lacquerware.

Pile of lacquer

No lacquer ash and different from the lacquer color of the lacquer to produce a pattern of a painting technique. Nowadays, the lacquer can be made of adhesive material, gold and color, and has a wide range of meanings.

Carved lacquer

The technique of carving patterns on the flat lacquer tires piled up. Carved lacquer in China began in the Tang Dynasty, historically the most famous in Xitang, Jiaxing, Yuan Dynasty, and in modern times the main places of origin are Beijing, Yangzhou, Tianshui, Huizhou and so on. Most of the carved lacquer is made of distinctive vermilion lacquer, so it is also known as "picking red". Carved lacquer is often wood ash, metal as a tire, with the lacquer pile, less than eighty to ninety layers, as many as one or two hundred layers, is to be half-dry when traced on the drawing, imposed on the carving of a painting technique. Generally brocade pattern for the ground, pattern hidden up, exquisite and gorgeous and rich sense of solemnity.

Spotted Lacquer

Spotted lacquer is a technique of lacquer decoration in the Northern and Southern Dynasties of the Jin Dynasty, which was used in ancient times as the decoration of the car. This method is named after the use of two or more colors of lacquer, interlaced with each other, showing a variety of patterns, as if the plants and animals on the spots and patterns. Painting and decorating record Kunjie Fuxinhua": "fine spots on the ground of all decorations". Yang Ming note: "the list of ornaments, are suitable for fine spots, and its spots black, green, red, yellow, purple, brown, and texture color is also the same, is the six-color each other, there are two-color, three-color mishmash of the quality of the spot with the same color, to the depth of the points". This seems to be similar to the spot lacquer. In addition, with a single-color paint to show the different shades of mottled, also called spot paint.