Poyang Bodiless Lacquerware Painting Technique
Bodiless lacquerware is a traditional Chinese arts and crafts with a long history. Its lacquerware is famous for its novel shape, bright lacquer surface, exquisite workmanship and smooth inner wall. It is listed as one of the "Three Treasures of China" along with Jingdezhen porcelain and Beijing cloisonné. Poyang bodiless lacquerware started in the pre-Qin period and has been passed down from generation to generation. It has made significant developments and breakthroughs in the late Qing Dynasty. The solidification and forming bodiless molding process of Poyang bodiless lacquerware has opened up a new path for the production of bodiless lacquerware and opened up a precedent for the production of Chinese bodiless lacquerware. The production of Poyang bodiless lacquerware requires processes such as making the body, painting, adding metal gold mouth, painting, polishing, and matting inspection. The body materials of lacquerware mainly include wood body, sandwich body, leather body, and bamboo body. The completion of a bodiless lacquerware must go through processes such as molding, cutting, and gluing, which is particularly complicated for large utensils. In 1915, the "Black-faded Photoengraved Lacquer-Pasted Gold-capped Slip" made by Zhang Xizhen, a lacquer artist from Poyang County, won the Panama International Exposition Award. Information source: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)