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Chinese screen with 4 sheets, cinnabar lacquer * one side (signed) and Coromandel lacquer ** each other, representing many Asian characters (mandarins, courtesans and servants) in flowery landscapes and planted pine and dragons in the top, XIXth century.
The screen is in good condition and is of exceptional quality. Each central panel in cinnabar lacquer is signed (lower left).
A note: some accidents and lacquer gaps (red side), also accidents on the blackened wooden frame, accidents and traces of restoration on the side of Coromandel lacquer, wear time, well look at the pictures (see red arrows).
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In Europe as in India, the lacquer is a substance like gum deposited on trees by some insect species, such as "Tachardia lacca". This substance harvested from the tree was used to mimic the extreme east of lacquer on or Japanese style furniture sinisants since the sixteenth century. The lacquer, dried and purified, contains following grades up to 80% "urushiol" (lacquer acid). This material, as pure, can be used directly as the transparent substance. If one wishes to obtain a colored material, simply add special pigments, cinnabar for red, pine soot or lamp black, and subsequently the iron sulfate for black, sulphide arsenic for green and brown. White, lacquer mixture of lead carbonate (white lead), already used BC on Chinese lacquer
Coromandel is a part of the south coast between the river and Godava Nagapatnam India. In the seventeenth century, trade and importation of furniture in from China to Europe was via sea route. The objects transiting Coromandel, making it a vital staging point for trade. The manufacturing technique consists of etching a pattern into the lacquer layer previously applied to a core of wood 1 cm coated linen fabrics or hemp and pork blood, which reveals a neutral background. The latter is then coated with a colored lacquer layer. This technique is known in China since the sixteenth century. main production centers were in the southern provinces, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong.
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