Chongqing lacquerware

Chongqing lacquerware is known as China's "four major wood lacquers", and has been presented to foreign heads of state as a national gift. The beauty and fun of Chongqing lacquerware is intuitive, and it has also been made into ornamental discs, vases, pen holders, etc., which are practical and excellent for private collections or gifts.

髹 (xiū) ornament is an important craft of lacquerware, and to put it bluntly, it belongs to the surface treatment to make lacquerware beautiful. Decoration is also a generalization, specifically including painting, grinding and other skills. Chongqing lacquerware is characterized by the "gold, silver, and pink spectroscopic lacquer", which gives the lacquerware a sand-like powdery color but maintains a smooth surface, the same technique used in Japan's world-famous Maki-e. The Raden eggshell inlay is even more unique, and the craftsman uses the eggshell fragments to stack the pattern with a mosaic effect, which is very interesting to see from a distance.

The complicated craft requires high manual skills, and there are not many workers who produce lacquerware today, and there are only 10 craftsmen who have obtained the identity of "inheritor", so the price of lacquerware crafts with collection value is rarely less than 10,000 yuan. Consumers can go to the studio of the fourth-generation successor Wang Zongxiu in Jiulongpo, which he created with his disciple Chen Zhiyue, and the production is relatively high.

If there is no collection paranoia, you can also buy lacquerware with a price of hundreds of yuan, which is mass production, and its patterns and shapes are relatively rigid, which is an obvious shortcoming. When purchasing, you can choose the physical store and official website of the regular lacquerware production and distribution agency, and the Shanshen lacquerware factory is currently more famous.