[Japanese Ancient Art] Ancient Makie Lacquer Ware Tall Fruit Dish Pot Bearing

**Makie Lacquerware** Lacquerware has a luxurious and noble visual style. It is called maki-e to decorate lacquerware with gold powder or silver powder and colored lacquer. Makie technique appeared in the Heian period of Japan. It was originally a royal item for princes and nobles. It began to spread to ordinary townspeople in the Edo period and became an indispensable treasure for wealthy merchants and banquets. Makie is a Japanese lacquer decoration technique. "Maki" means "sprinkling", which can be said to be a technique of painting with powder. Using the adhesiveness of lacquer when it is half-dry, various powders are sprinkled on the surface. to produce a variety of colors. The lacquerware produced by Wajima Nuri can be said to be the best in the world. It takes more than 14 months to complete a piece of work. The production process is extremely complicated with as many as 124 processes, and 6-7 craftsmen divide the work. A work of art that requires highly sophisticated craftsmanship and is drawn stroke by stroke. **How to maintain lacquerware** People often worry about whether lacquerware can hold hot food. In fact, as long as it can be eaten with hot food, there is no problem. In fact, cleaning lacquerware is the same as ordinary ceramics. No special maintenance is required. Wash and dry the water as soon as possible after use. , but special attention should be paid not to soak in water for a long time, and the hardness of lacquerware is not high, it is easy to produce scratches, so lacquerware products can only be washed by hand or cleaned with a sponge, and absolutely cannot be wiped with a pickle cloth or a thick fiber cloth towel!