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lacquerware

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Noun1.lacquerwarelacquerware - a decorative work made of wood and covered with lacquer and often inlaid with ivory or precious metals
japan - lacquerware decorated and varnished in the Japanese manner with a glossy durable black lacquer
piece of work, work - a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing; "it is not regarded as one of his more memorable works"; "the symphony was hailed as an ingenious work"; "he was indebted to the pioneering work of John Dewey"; "the work of an active imagination"; "erosion is the work of wind or water over time"

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Rausch's interesting essay on lacquerware, in which notions of tradition and modernity, conservation and consumption are woven through a description of local and national, the first being mingeihin (folkcraft) and the second bijutsu (art).
In Ishikawa art also meets tradition in lacquerware.
This includes vintage Italian glass, Japanese lacquerware, Victorian jewelry, Tibetan deities and early 20th century decorative arts.
 
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