Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Roheda Wood Similar examples can be found

Similar examples can be found on display at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in the 'How to Make the Universe Right' exhibition

central decorative knop

it drops to -20 degrees celsius in northern China

This lovely painted Indian door has been salvaged from an old building in Gujarat

France & Spain all trading within its walls

Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Roheda Wood Similar examples can be foundThis Japanese zataku table (low table, ) is crafted in tsugaru nuri lacquer with inclusions of mother of pearl (raden) flakes. Zataku were known as communal dining tables which came to prominence in the Taish era (1912 1926). It would be a dramatic and functional coffee table. Tsugaru nuri lacquer technique mimics the beautiful depths and patterns on the seabed of Wakasa Bay. It is painstakingly intensive work involving hundreds of layers of lacquer,