Complete Collection of Chinese Lacquerware, Volume 1: Pre-Qin

Author: Chen Zhenyu
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Publishing Date: 1998-01-01
Features: China is the birthplace of lacquerware craftsmanship, a remarkable contribution of our ancestors to world culture. Pre-Qin lacquerware craftsmanship underwent three periods—emergence, gradual development, and maturation—achieving significant accomplishments in production techniques, vessel forms, and decorative arts. It profoundly influenced lacquerware craftsmanship from the Qin and Han dynasties to later periods. This volume features one hundred and ninety exquisite lacquerware artifacts selected from archaeological excavations across the country, accompanied by two hundred and thirty-six color illustrations. The introduction provides an overview of Pre-Qin lacquerware, comprehensively elaborating on the developmental history of lacquerware craftsmanship. At the end of the volume, appendices include black-and-white illustrations and plate descriptions written by various collecting institutions, offering detailed information on the era, excavation time and location, main dimensions, forms, techniques, and decorative patterns of the lacquerware. This volume is regarded as the most comprehensive, systematic, and exquisite atlas of Pre-Qin Chinese lacquerware currently available both domestically and internationally.