japanning

"Boston seems to have been the only place japanning was so popular."

If the japanning is intact, a magnet can be used to identify iron.

By the 1880s, the japanning and tin-plate industries were in decline.

Mightn't they be stains of black japanning?

Japanning of tinplate begins at Pontypool.

Black is common enough that japanning is often assumed to be synonymous with black japanning.

An exhibition of 17th- to 19th-century lacquered furniture, writing accessories and boxes that shows some of the differences between true Asian lacquer and European japanning.

One of the most dazzling examples of American japanning is a William and Mary high chest that Sotheby's is selling today.

The technique was described in manuals such as Stalker and Parker's Treatise of Japanning and Varnishing, published in Oxford in 1688.

Although the surface is lusterless and certain sections are worn, most of the japanning is intact, according to William Stahl, who heads Sotheby's sales of American decorative arts.

And we beg you not to duplicate the mistakes of 20 years ago, when it was fashionable to remove the precious black japanning on planes with a sandblaster and paint them beige.

In the early 1990's, tensions flared in Scarsdale after a sharp influx of Japanese families there; one magazine article spoke ominously of "The Japanning of Scarsdale."

Two years ago, a magazine article spoke ominously of "The Japanning of Scarsdale" and it was illustrated by a photograph of a station platform dominated by somber-faced Japanese businessmen.

The 17th-century term "japanning" refers to a range of techniques to imitate various Asian lacquerware, but especially those developed in Europe and Great Britain to resemble lacquerware imported from the Orient.

The 11th room - The 20th room (1F): There are exhibition rooms according to the genres such as Sculpture, Metalworking, Pottery, Japanning, Katana, Ethnic material, Historic material, Modern art, etc.

According to Samuel Timmins' book Birmingham and the Midland Hardware District, published in 1866, there were 2000 people employed in the japanning and tin-plate industries in Wolverhampton and Bilston at the time.