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What is Vietnamese lacquer?

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What is Vietnamese lacquer?
Sơn mài is also known as Vietnamese lacquer painting. It is a more modern approach to a technique that has a more than 8000-year history in China and Persia. The lacquer used in these paintings comes from the sap of the lacquer tree or the Rhus succedanea.
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Lacquered Asian Trays from Vietnam, with circles Decor Pattern Set of 2
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
This tray is an Asian tray. It has been made in Vietnam in the 1980's. It is made in black
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Vintage 1970s Vietnamese Chinese Export Lacquer

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Wood

Large Vietnamese Lacquer
Located in Jersey City, NJ
This lacquer depicts Vietnamese boats on a river with typical houses on stilts. On the back side
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Vintage 1980s Vietnamese Lacquer

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Wood, Lacquer

Important Signed Vietnamese Lacquer
Located in Jersey City, NJ
This lacquer is decorated with deers in a lush environnement in lavish reds with a waterfall in
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Vintage 1950s Vietnamese Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

Vietnamese Lacquer Pham Chinh Trung
Located in Jersey City, NJ
With frame Width 23, Height 16 inches This lacquer bt Pham Chun Trung is signed and dated 92 in the
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1990s Vietnamese Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

Vietnamese Lacquer By Pham Chinh Trung
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Pham Chinh Trung is a Vietnamese lacquer born in 1955 in Vietnam. This is a lacquer on wood depicting a
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1990s Vietnamese Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

Vietnamese Lacquer By Pham Chinh Trung
Located in Jersey City, NJ
This a Lacquer on wood signed and dated in the lower left corner. Pham Chinh Trung was born in 1955
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20th Century Vietnamese Lacquer

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Gold Leaf

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