While she was there, she dropped in to a local lacquer ware factory.
In France, on the other hand, ouvrage à la Chine was the term for the imitation of lacquer practiced at the Gobelins factory in Paris from 1672.
In the 16th century there were special factories for carved lacquer at Dali in Yunnan, which also produced spurious imitations.
Rows of red, gold and electric-blue guitars incubate behind glass walls after being glued, painted and lacquered by hand at the Gibson Guitar Factory, 145 Lt. George W. Lee Avenue, (901) 543-0800, www.gibsonshowcase.com/bealestreet/thefactory.html.html
The architect Carlo Scarpa spent the wartime years persuading the Venini factory there to turn glass into simulations of lacquer, hammered metal, white porcelain, jade and lava.
There is also what he calls "the juicing issue" -- how much lacquer, or "juice," should be drizzled on the hammers at the factory.
What was left of the imperial factories was burnt in 1869, and, though carved red lacquer was made after that date, the industry had already ceased to have artistic importance.
By the Han dynasty, lacquer production was chiefly carried on at Changsha and in four regional factories in Shu (modern Sichuan) under government control.
The carved lacquer first developed in the Yuan dynasty continued through the Ming and Qing and was made in many different factories.
