Gold leaf designs - bowls & plates

VINTAGE THAI LACQUER BOX > LACQUERWARE BLACK > BOXES WITH LIDS

Continuing you can buy artisan bowls & plates from the highland city of Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Boxes and plates, all different shapes and sizes, are just some of the lacquered handicrafts created. Engraved patterns gilded with gold leaf designs adorn them.

Wooden plates with gold leaf ornament

Lacquerware with gold leaf

Article number: 03052018-20-21

Offered is a wooden bowl, painted black with handmade gold decor.
Condition: New
Origin: Thailand
Dimensions: bowl 18 cm x 18 cm, height: 6 cm
Weight: 250g

Black Gold Paint Painting is a traditional Thai art form. Among the applied arts, which have been practiced by the Thai for a long time, the ornamentation with gold leaf drawings on black, and rarely on red lacquer is significant to decorate various objects for religious or daily use such as small boxes, cabinets or beautifully decorated woodenscreens.

29,00 €

Gesamtpreis, zzgl. Versandkosten

0,35 kg
verfügbar / available
8 - 12 Werktage / working days

Wooden plates with gold leaf ornament - small

Lacquerware with gold leaf

Article number: 03052018-20-30

Offered is a wooden bowl, painted black with handmade gold decor.
Condition: New
Origin: Thailand
Dimensions: bowl 13 cm x 1 cm, height: 5 cm
Weight: 140 g

Black Gold Paint Painting is a traditional Thai art form. Among the applied arts, which have been practiced by the Thai for a long time, the ornamentation with gold leaf drawings on black, and rarely on red lacquer is significant to decorate various objects for religious or daily use such as small boxes, cabinets or beautifully decorated woodenscreens.

24,00 €

Gesamtpreis, zzgl. Versandkosten

0,25 kg
verfügbar / available
8 - 12 Werktage / working days

Lacquerware with Gold Leaf - Flower

Thai Lacquer Box

Article number: 29082018-10-32

Offered is a wooden bowl with lid, painted black with handmade gold decor on bowl and lid.

Item: Vintage Thai Lacquer Box
Condition: New
Origin: Thailand
Size: Bowl with lid, big: height: 7,5 cm, diameter: 8.5 cm
Weight: 85g

The object is coated layer upon layer with thitsee and thayo to make a smooth surface, polished and engraved with intricate designs, commonly using red, green and yellow colours on a red or black background. Shwezawa is a distinctive form in its use of gold leaf to fill in the designs on a black background.

14,90 €

Gesamtpreis, zzgl. Versandkosten

0,1 kg
verfügbar / available
8 - 12 Werktage / working days

Lacquerware with Gold Leaf - Flower

Thai Lacquer Box

Article number: 29082018-09-22

Offered is a wooden bowl with lid, painted black with handmade gold decor on bowl and lid.

Item: Vintage Thai Lacquer Box
Condition: New
Origin: Thailand
Size: Bowl with lid, big: height: 7,5 cm, diameter: 8.5 cm
Weight: 85g

The object is coated layer upon layer with thitsee and thayo to make a smooth surface, polished and engraved with intricate designs, commonly using red, green and yellow colours on a red or black background. Shwezawa is a distinctive form in its use of gold leaf to fill in the designs on a black background.

8,90 €

Gesamtpreis, zzgl. Versandkosten

0,1 kg
verfügbar / available
8 - 12 Werktage / working days

Lacquerware with Gold Leaf - Elephant

Thai Lacquer Box

Articel number: 29082018-08-12

Offered is a wooden bowl with lid, painted black with handmade gold decor on bowl and lid.

Item: Vintage Thai Lacquer Box
Condition: New
Origin: Thailand
Size: Bowl with lid, small: height: 6 cm, diameter: 6.5 cm
Weight: 60g

The object is coated layer upon layer with thitsee and thayo to make a smooth surface, polished and engraved with intricate designs, commonly using red, green and yellow colours on a red or black background. Shwezawa is a distinctive form in its use of gold leaf to fill in the designs on a black background.

8,90 €

Gesamtpreis, zzgl. Versandkosten

0,1 kg
verfügbar / available
8 - 12 Werktage / working days

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Gold leaf designs - bowls & plates

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Burmese lacquerware

Yun-de is lacquerware in Burmese, and the art is called Pan yun. The lacquer is the sap tapped from the varnish tree Melanorrhoea usitata or Thitsee that grows wild in the forests of Myanmar (formerly Burma) It is straw-colored but turns black on exposure to air. When brushed in or coated on, it forms a hard glossy smooth surface resistant to a degree from the effects of exposure to moisture or heat.

History

Bayinnaung's conquest and subjugation in 1555-1562 of Manipur, Bhamo, Zinme (Chiang Mai), Linzin (Lan Xang), and up the Taping and Shweli rivers in the direction of Yunnan brought back large numbers of skilled craftsmen into Burma. It is thought that the finer sort of Burmese lacquerware, called Yun, was introduced during this period by imported artisans belonging to the Yun or Laos Shan tribes of the Chiang Mai region.

Manufacture and design

The object is coated layer upon layer with thitsee and thayo to make a smooth surface, polished and engraved with intricate designs, commonly using red, green and yellow colours on a red or black background. Shwezawa is a distinctive form in its use of gold leaf to fill in the designs on a black background.

Various round boxes with lids, small and large, are known as yun-it including ones for paan called kun-it (betel boxes). Yun titta are rectangular boxes for storing various articles including peisa or palm leaf manuscripts when they are called sadaik titta.

Industry

Bagan is the major centre for the lacquerware industry where the handicraft has been established for nearly two centuries, and still practiced in the traditional manner. Here a government school of lacquerware was founded in the 1920s. At the village of Kyaukka near Monywa in the Chindwin valley, however, sturdy lacquer utensils are still produced for everyday use mainly in plain black.

Vintage Thai Lacquer Box Lacquerware Black and real Gold 24K Leaf

THAILAND GOLD LEAF

Gold leaf is made from gold with high purity. then gold standard in Thailand has been improved. Generally, there are 2 types of gold bar as follows;
99.9 % pure gold bar. It is not suitable for gold leaf production because its color will be yellow white and pale. So it is not popular in the market.
96.5 % pure gold bar is now a standard of gold bar in Thailand. The color of beaten gold is bright yellow and very gross because of 3.5% silver composition. It is most popular because of its beautiful and easy to come by.