The art or act of varnishing in the Japanese manner.
The European imitation of oriental lacquer. Gesso is used to create raised surfaces overlaid with shellac.
Japanning is the process of covering a furniture piece with paint, gesso, varnish, gold powder, and/or gold leaf in order to imitate an Oriental lacquered finish.
because genuine Japanese lacquer was not available in Europe in the late 17th century so substitutes like shellac were used to imitate the effect
Western method of imitating Asian lacquering techniques.
A process much used in the 18th century by which furniture and metalwork were enameled with colored shellac and the decoration raised and painted with gold and other colors.
A type of varnishing . It was to imitate the lacquering work from the east. It was used from the 1660’s. Initially it was produced by using heat hardened spirit based varnishes and as oil based became available they were used.!-- google_ad_client = "pub-8039990704443990"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel ="6807473505"; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "0000FF"; google_color_text = "000000"; google_color_url = "FF3300";
The European imitation of oriental lacquering.
A process of lacquering furniture in the Japanese manner, very popular in the late 17th and earlier 18th century. Bright colours and Eastern designs were used on English styles.
17th- and 18th Century European technique of painting and enameling to imitate Japanese lacquering.
A painting technique requiring several coats of heat-hardened lacquer, used in creating chinoiserie designs.
painting and varnishing in imitation of Oriental lacquerwork
The application of an enamel coat by any process for protective or decorative purposes.
A decorative technique that included several layers of paint finished with a coat of lacquer; commonly applied on early American and European tin. In France, a cheaper dying method was used whereby a varnish paint mix was burned on in alcohol, then baked, achieving a thin, hard translucence.
The art of coating surfaces such as wood or metal (particularly tin-plate) with different varnishes dried in heat chambers before painting or engraving, etc.. Used heavily in the Orient.. Also know as Lacquering
A technique of painting that requires several coats of heat-hardened lacquer, commonly used in creating chinoiserie designs.
In imitation of lacquer work from Japan and the Far East, a technique used in England from the late 17th century, which was at its height in the late 18th century when the term was usually applied to metal coated with layers of varnish, dried and hardened by heat. Confusingly, "japanning" became interchangeable with Lacquer Work when applied to wood coated with a form of gesso and then with layers of varnish.
Japanning is a word originating from the 17th century, used to describe the European imitation of Asian lacquerwork, originally used on furniture.