Featured Cinnabar Type Bracelets

Discussion in 'Jewelry' started by kraftblue, Feb 17, 2020.

  1. kraftblue

    kraftblue Well-Known Member

    Picked these up today, although they are not all red, are these still called Cinnabar?
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  2. KikoBlueEyes

    KikoBlueEyes Well-Known Member

    Cinnabar comes in different layering of colors of which black is one.
     
  3. evelyb30

    evelyb30 Well-Known Member

    They're at least made to look like it. Whether they're "real" is anyone's guess from a photo. I'm not seeing any layering in the lacquer, but a photo might not show it.
     
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  4. kraftblue

    kraftblue Well-Known Member

    Thanks Kiko and Evelyb
     
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  5. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    Technically speaking cinnabar is the name of crystallized mercuric sulphide, which is orange to red. Cinnabar lacquer is lacquer which is made orange to brownish red using cinnabar.
    Cinnabar is toxic, and no longer used. Most 'cinnabar lacquer' you see nowadays is not actually lacquer.
    As evelyb said, you can only tell if these two lovelies are cinnabar lacquer if you see layering of the lacquer. You also need to see signs of handcarving.
     
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