Sentence examples for lacquer ground from inspiring English sources
The takamaki-e technique consists of building decorative motifs with a mixture of lacquer putty, white lead, lampblack, camphor, and gold or silver foil in relief against a lacquer ground.
It looks like the thickest part of a baseball bat rendered in ground chicken that has been lacquered with a sweetish soy-brown sauce.
Barbecued spare ribs, a Chinese classic if ever there was one, break no new ground, but the tender, lean morsels, lacquered with a sesame-honey glaze and artistically stacked log cabin style, are so tasty I didn't feel ripped off by their $12 price.
On this is laid very hard lacquer, requiring a much longer drying interval, afterward being ground to a fine surface.
The second method involves gluing the shell onto the ground coating, applying a mixture of clay powder and raw lacquer (sabi), and burnishing the surface.
About 33 steps are needed just to produce the basic black or red ground on an object, including more than 20 coats of lacquer, which, by the way, is toxic; each layer must be carefully dried and sanded with increasingly fine abrasives.
Flat paints, lacquers, or sealing glues are used, according to the nature of the ground material.
In Germany, a Ming dynasty lacquer plate — about 600 years old — was hit by a housekeeper's elbow and ended up in bits on the ground.
Lacquer also was sometimes engraved.
He also used lacquer regularly.
