Editing Lacquerware (section)

{{Short description|Objects decoratively covered with lacquer}}
[[File:Музей азійського мистецтва9.jpg|thumb|170px|Lacquerware collection, China, [[Qing dynasty]]]]
'''Lacquerware''' are objects decoratively covered with [[lacquer]]. Lacquerware includes small or large containers, tableware, a variety of small objects carried by people, and larger objects such as furniture and even coffins painted with lacquer. Before lacquering, the surface is sometimes painted with pictures, inlaid with shell and other materials, or [[carved lacquer|carved]]. The lacquer can be [[maki-e|dusted with gold or silver]] for example [[Hirameji]] and given further decorative treatments.

[[East Asia]]n countries have long traditions of lacquer work, origin of lacquer is from china. going back several thousand years in the cases of China, Japan and Korea. The best known lacquer, an [[urushiol]]-based lacquer common in East Asia, is obtained from the dried sap of ''[[Toxicodendron vernicifluum]].'' Other types of lacquers are processed from a variety of plants and insects. The traditions of lacquer work in [[Southeast Asia]], [[South Asia]] and the [[Americas]] are also ancient and originated independently. True lacquer is not made outside Asia, but some imitations, such as [[Japanning]] in Europe, or parallel techniques, are often loosely referred to a "lacquer."