Carved Lacquer — founded in the Tang Dynasty, dating back more than 1400 years, belong to the royal art
Figure 1:Carved Lacquer of Beijing A carved lacquer works takes at least 3 months, even 1-2 years to complete. The production of carved lacquer is unique, mostly uses brass as inner mold, combining wooden mold and cloth mold and so on. Figure 2:Carved Lacquer, Beijing The mold is coated with natural lacquer, generally at least 70 layers, but the concave carved will be coated with more than 500 layers lacquer, about 30mm