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Updated: May 27, 2025
In one way this is very simple, for there is no cloth to spread, for tablecloths are unknown, and when enough rice has been boiled and enough tea has been made, the breakfast is ready. But there is one point upon which she must be very careful. The lacquer rice-bowls and the chopsticks must be set in their proper order, according to the importance of each person in the family.
The few warm spring days gave the opportunity, and nothing was prettier than the scarlet lacquer tray with the Nankin cups set out under the heliotrope vines. I asked whether this was any special celebration, and father said yes; it was a farewell complimentary to him. He had to go out of town to-night.
She finished dressing and went out into the huge, grandly and gaudily furnished salon. Harding was at a carved old-gold and lacquer desk, writing. As she entered he rose and bowed. "Won't you please call one of the servants?" said she. "I want my coffee. I guess the bell in my room is broken. My maid doesn't answer." "No, the bell is not broken," said Harding. She looked at him questioningly.
A great many candles had been lighted, on tables and mantel, and in lacquer stands. One of the latter, at Mrs. Winscombe's side, showed her features clearly. Howat Penny saw that while she was actually no prettier than Caroline she was infinitely more vivid and compelling.
"Start with the story of the lacquer bowl," he said, talking very slowly and clearly. "We want to hear what happened about that first."
It is something to know that you saw the boy, but I wish you could remember if you saw Heath." Mrs. Wilder got up and walked to the window. "I do hope he will be found. Did he take my lacquer bowl with him?" "He had not got it," said Hartley, in his steady, matter-of-fact voice. "Are you worried about it?" She turned and looked across the room. "Why should you be?
A lacquer casket, a string of Egyptian mummy-beads what seemed to the children an inexhaustible stock of wonderful, mysterious treasures.
Unconscious artists tracing with steady hand on a background of lacquer or of porcelain traditional designs learnt by heart, or transmitted to their brains by a process of heredity through thousands of years; automatic painters, whose storks are similar to those of M. Sucre, with the inevitable little rocks, or little butterflies eternally the same.
They are conspicuous people in Bombay by their look of intense harmlessness. The men are very tidy and wear what they probably would describe as European clothes, trousers and long cutaway coats and white turndown collars. Some have grey pot hats, with a round moulding instead of a brim, but their ordinary hat is something like a mitre in black lacquer, and it does suggest heat!
CHINESE FURNITURE: Probable source of artistic taste Sir William Chambers quoted Racinet's "Le Costume Historique" Dutch influence The South Kensington and the Duke of Edinburgh Collections Processes of making Lacquer Screens in the Kensington Museum.
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