Tea Caddy (Chaire), 1500s. Negoro is a lacquer technique, named after the Negoro temple in Japan, in which several layers of red lacquer are applied over a black lacquer undercoating. Through years of handling, a natural surface of red and black random patterns emerges - an aesthectic highly prized by the Japanese.

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