Some once-very-heavy ritual instruments were replaced by lacquerware.
It was then very popular to decorate lacquerware with gold and silver and embedding techniques were extensively used.
However, most of the lacquerware pieces unearthed at Mawangdui are utensils of daily usage, including tableware, furniture, weapons, and gambling utensils for entertainment purposes.
Well, what's special about bodiless lacquerware?
The lacquerware is a variety of traditional crafts with lacquer on the surface layer.
Once a Thai delegate showed tremendous interest in the process behind a carved lacquerware technique, but Xu Han wasn't familiar with the subject.
Fujian lacquerware is known far and wide.
During Emperor Chengzu's reign, with the economic growth, lacquerware production also experienced another peak time of development.
" so far the oldest lacquerware found is a lacquer-painted wooden bowl discovered in the Hemudu remains, which went back 7,000 years. However, for centuries lacquer painting remained an applied art rather than an independent one."
They also appreciate seals, lacquerware, antique rhinoceros horn, archaic bronzes, carved wooden furniture and jade, especially the white sort from Khotan.
If red lacquer is used, the technique is called red carved lacquerware.
This is an example of the popular bodiless lacquerware technique.
They are the earliest and most superb lacquerware of the Chu Kingdom of the Warring States Period.
As the term lacquerware can no longer be restrained within the content above, the concept of lacquer art came into being.
Chief among them are porcelain and pottery, LACES, embroidery, carpets, brocade, cloisonne, carvings of jade, stone, ivory and wood, lacquerware, braiding, toys, etc.
