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Detail: It’s an art nearly as old as civilization itself. Since the Neolithic era, artisans in East Asia have coated bowls, cups, boxes, baskets, and other utilitarian objects with a natural polymer distilled from the sap of the rhus verniciflua, known as the lacquer tree. Lacquerware was—and still is—prized for its sheen, a lustrous beauty that artists learned to accentuate over the centuries with inlaid gold, silver, mother-of-pearl, and other precious materials.
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"> Aoki Chie, BODY 09-1 "Impact," |
2009 37 3/4 × 43 5/16 × 74 13/16 in. (95.89 × 110.01 × 190.02 cm) Lacquer and hemp cloth on foam polystyrene Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture 2013.29.1339. |
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