Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver

Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver (image 1/[null, null, null, null, null])
Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver (image 2/[null, null, null, null, null])
Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver (image 3/[null, null, null, null, null])
Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver (image 4/[null, null, null, null, null])
Vintage Carved Cinnabar Lacquer Beaded Necklace Hand Knotted Pink~Red & Silver (image 5/[null, null, null, null, null])
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This is a beautiful red Cinnabar-Lacquer Beaded Necklace with a silver clasp, it has a drop of approx 11" and .95mm beads in excellent condition. Under magnification of this necklace you can see the layering by looking at the side of the cut-outs, it's very interesting from a geological and artistic perspective.PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION BELOW:Over the years, Western collectors gradually began referring to any reddish-orange colored lacquer as "cinnabar." Today you hear or read of items described as "cinnabar snuff bottles" or "cinnabar vases." Technically, those pieces are carved cinnabar-colored lacquer snuff bottles and vases. Cinnabar is the color; lacquer is the material from which the objects are carved. Lacquer--plain or carved--comes in many colors other than cinnabar including black, green, purple and others.The use of lacquer was developed in China about 3000-2500 BC. Over the centuries the techniques of working with lacquer spread to other Asian countries including Japan and KoreaCarved lacquer from classical periods in Japan and China, AD, can have as many as 200-300 separate layers. Workshop records from those early periods speak of large pieces that took years to prepare and up to several years to carve. New pieces of genuine carved cinnabar lacquer have an estimated 50-100 layers.True Cinnabar is toxic, read more
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