Japanese lacquer
Lacquer (urushi) has been used to produce both utilitarian objects and works of art in Japan for millennia. Japanes…
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Korean red lacquer chest
This Korean red lacquer chest inlaid with mother-of-pearl decoration was purchased by a curator from the Ceramics D…
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Japanese export lacquer panel
This Japanese lacquer panel was almost certainly the top of a chest made around 1640 for the European market. It be…
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East meets West: The Althorp Triad
The Althorp triad, now on display in the British Galleries, is a particularly fine example of furniture that incorp…
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The development of English black japanning 1620-1820
Oriental lacquer objects were first imported into Europe in the late sixteenth century. Imitations of lacquer by Eu…
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Traditional Japanese pastimes: calligraphy
Ownership of a high quality writing set with tasteful decoration was a sign of status and refinement. …
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Traditional Japanese pastimes: picnics
In sixteenth-century Japan a mid-day meal was added to the routine morning and evening meals, and the picnic set pr…
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About the Mazarin Chest
The Mazarin Chest, renowned as one of the finest pieces of Japanese export lacquer to have survived from the second quarter of the seventeenth century, is a star item in the V&A's internationally acclaimed collection of Japanese art. マザラン･チェストは17世紀第二四半期に遡る、現存する日本輸出漆器の最高級品の一つとして名高く、V&Aの世界屈指の日本美術コレクションの中でも目玉の所蔵品です。
Treatment of the Mazarin Chest - Conservation programme
Preliminary work began in 2004 to examine the chest, to assess its condition, and to document where and why it was damaged. Five key conservation issues were identified. 2004年に、マザラン･チェストの構造技法と状態を評価し、その損傷箇所と原因を検証するために、事前調査が行われました。
The Mazarin Chest project
The Mazarin Chest Project was a major collaborative undertaking involving conservators, curators and scientists from the UK, Japan, Germany and Poland. マザラン･チェスト･プロジェクトは、英国、日本、ドイツ、ポーランドから保存修復者、学芸員、科学者を結集して行われた大規模な共同プロジェクトです。その焦点となったのは、ヴィクトリア･アンド･アルバート博物館所蔵のマザラン･チェスト。当作品は1630年代後期から1640年代初頭にかけて京都で作られた最高水準の日本輸出漆器の中でも、とりわけ優れた装飾性を誇る作例です。
Garden Egg Chair by Peter Ghyczy, 1968
The Garden Egg, or Senftenberg Egg, chair was designed by Peter Ghyczy in 1968. It has two stories, one from each side of the Berlin wall.
Japanese crafts: inro
Inro ('seal-basket’) are small decorative containers that hang from the waist. They originated at the end of the sixteenth century and were worn by men to hold seals and herbal and other medicines.
British Design 1948–2012: Innovation in the Modern Age
31 March–12 August 2012
Showcasing over 300 British design objects, this exhibition celebrates the best of British post-war art and design from the 1948 ‘Austerity Games' to the summer of 2012.
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Korean Art and Design
This highly illustrated book covers objects from the 5th-century AD to the present day and includes fine examples of ceramics, metalwork, furniture and lacquer, textiles and contemporary crafts.
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Mon 24 September 2012 10:30
SHORT COURSE: Discover over 4,000 years of arts in early China.
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