The secundine is expected to be hung over a lacquer tree as the lacquer tree has lacquer milk, an omen that the calf or the pony would have adequate milk.
The application that waits for Lin Hua product as to colophony, terebinthine, Chan Ning, raw lacquer, tung-oil, white wax, pigment also has long history.
The Japanese art of Kintsugi allows you to transform a broken item into something beautiful by repairing the cracks in it with a gold, silver, or platinum lacquer.
Typically, the emperor paid out a large chunk of state revenue every year to provide allies and vassal states with luxury gifts, including thousands of rolls of silk and hundreds of lacquer cups.
" It was only gathering dust. I sanded it down and repainted it and applied another layer of lacquer, that's all. It's no big bloody deal, " he grumbles, irritated.
The sky looks lacquered; clouds there are none; the horizon floats; and this nakedness of unrelieved radiance is as the insufferable splendors of God's throne.
The core of the cup is wood, and through some of the damage you can just see that wood, but of course most of it's covered in layer after layer of reddish-brown lacquer.