Fuzhou

Fuzhou is a Fujian craft centre associated with bodiless lacquerware and other layered lacquer traditions.

Fuzhou · Orienda research record

This is a research lead, not a complete regional history. Fuzhou enters the atlas because it lets the same questions—material, substrate, curing and finishing—be asked of a documented production place.

The page will expand only when workshop interviews and object records can support finer distinctions between local traditions and broader commercial lacquerware.

Related records

crafts

Lacquerware

materials

Natural lacquer

techniques

Lacquer layering and polishing

objects

Layered lacquer box

Sources and further reading

The influence of East Asian lacquer on European furniture, Victoria and Albert Museum.Material and historical context for East Asian lacquer