In the 6th and 7th centuries, Chinese artisans made human-size statues of the Buddha primarily from layers of lacquer, a tree resin. Only three from that era are known to survive, yet seeing them all ...

WE have previously shown 1 that laccase, the oxidizing enzyme present in the latex of the Indo-Chinese lacquer tree (Rhus succedanea), is a copper-protein compound. Our purest preparation of this ...

In a gray-tiled house along Liyang Old Street in Huangshan city, East China's Anhui province, sits an extraordinary studio. It is the workshop of Gan Erke, a master of Chinese lacquerware and ...