lacquer-ware

Instead, my hand came down on the long red lacquer-ware box beside it, tipping open the top to reveal a collection of hair - and hat-pins and the single carved ivory chop-stick that she had used to tease loose portions of hair.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Instead, my hand came down on the long red lacquer-ware box beside it, tipping open the top to reveal a collection of hair - and hat-pins and the single carved ivory chop-stick that she had used to tease loose portions of hair.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

She paused beside the guard and lifted a lacquer-ware box from the basket.

Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990

She paused beside the guard and lifted a lacquer-ware box from the basket.

Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990

She paused beside the guard and lifted a lacquer-ware box from the basket.

Vulcan’s Glory D. C. Fontana 1990

Folding screens and hanging pictures painted by celebrated artists, costly lacquer-ware, bronze, china, and other heirlooms are tastefully distributed about the room.

The Little Tea Book Arthur Gray

We never dreamed that our ideal England was dead and buried, that the actual England was not the marble goddess of our idolatry, but a poor Brummagem image, coarse lacquer-ware and tawdry paint!

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

Gangs of coolies, strung in Indian file along the paths, are met, carrying lacquer-ware from some interior town to Fat-shau and Canton.

Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

They were represented in lacquer-ware of many kinds, on the sides and covers of carven boxes, on tobacco-pouches, on sleeve-buttons, in designs for hairpins, on women's combs, even on chopsticks.

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877

House and lands first, -- then, article by article, all things not necessary to existence -- heirlooms, trinkets, costly robes, crested lacquer-ware -- passed cheaply to those whom misery makes rich, and whose wealth is called by the people _Namida no kane_, -- "the Money of Tears."

Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Lafcadio Hearn 1877