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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 484542, member: 8267"]Cinnabar most often refers to the mineral used to color lacquer - traditionally mercuric sulphide, which is red. But lacquer can be colored with other pigments. This may just be an example of green lacquer, carved like the more typical red lacquer. But lacquer work was usually done over a wood substrate, or sometimes a papier mache like material. I would not expect to see the white material visible at points of damage as johnnycb09 has also noted. So it might be plaster with a coating trying to imitate a celadon glazed ceramic.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 484542, member: 8267"]Cinnabar most often refers to the mineral used to color lacquer - traditionally mercuric sulphide, which is red. But lacquer can be colored with other pigments. This may just be an example of green lacquer, carved like the more typical red lacquer. But lacquer work was usually done over a wood substrate, or sometimes a papier mache like material. I would not expect to see the white material visible at points of damage as johnnycb09 has also noted. So it might be plaster with a coating trying to imitate a celadon glazed ceramic.[/QUOTE]
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