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Republican-China Round-head Fan Guards with Red Lacquer Coating

Arts & Crafts Museum Hangzhou

Arts & Crafts Museum Hangzhou
Hangzhou, China

The guards of this folding fan went through a process literally called “scarping red lacquer” in China, also known as “carving red lacquer”. According to Scraping Red Lacquer, Tenth Chapter of Carving, Volume of “Kun”, Recordings of Lacquerware by Huang Cheng of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 AD), “Scarping red lacquer, or carving red lacquer, is a technique developed in the Song and Yuan dynasties (960-1368 AD) that creates delicate and exquisite patterns with hidden blade work and traces of rubbing”. Often applied to a wood or metal base, such a technique involved the following procedures, first, coating the base in up to one or two hundred layers of red lacquer, or 80 or 90 layers at least, creating line drawing based on pre-determined design when the lacquer was half-dried, and carving patterns of birds, flowers, figures, landscapes, etc., in line with the drawing, and finally scraping unnecessary red lacquer on the surface.

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  • Title: Republican-China Round-head Fan Guards with Red Lacquer Coating
  • Physical dimensions: Length: 31cm, 16 guards & ribs

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