Word: lacquerer
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...occupied the whole fifth floor (100 rooms) of the Savoy Hotel on the Strand, for which he is said to pay $1,000 a day. Two special Indian cooks prepare his food and a fleet of 20 limousines waits in constant attendance. A new elevator in scarlet and Chinese lacquer was installed for his especial benefit and, by throwing several rooms together, a throne room was made on the fifth floor. Evidently the Maharaja is staying for some time...
...University), four old English tapestries were sold at Sotheby's (London) for ?6,800. The designs are of Indo-Chinese character with innumerable buildings, trees, exotic birds, all on black backgrounds. They belong to a well-known type worked by Vanderbank, who got his inspiration from lacquer screens. Signed panels by him are in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Two of these panels bear the mark of the Mortlake and other factories. The largest is 17 ft. 9 in. by 10 ft, the smallest 8 ft. 4 in. by 11 ft. The tapestries were in the possession...
...Kojiro Tomito will speak on "Japanese Lacquer Work" in Gallery 9 of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts tomorrow afternoon at 2.45 o'clock. The lecture will be given under the auspices of the Department of Chinese and Japanese...