This exceptional silver-mounted lacquerware (maque) chest (arqueta) from the 1770s is from Olinalá, Guerrero, in Mexico. Maque uses local materials to make a mixture of an oil base and ground clay to which pigments, gold, and silver were added.

Mexican lacquerware (laca or maque in Mexican Spanish) is one of the country's oldest crafts, having independent origins from Asian lacquerware.

May 19, 2020 · Laca, from the Persian term lak, (evolved to shellac), and maque, from the Japanese term, maki-e, and from the Arab word “sumac”, is a functional and decorative art, developed to create a protective coating or veneer over a surface, making it …

Oct 10, 2015 · Maque is a highly elaborate pre columbian technique developed by the Purépecha indigenous people in the XIVth century at the region of Michoacán, Mexico. Although this lacquer technique survived for centuries, even the independence war; it almost disappeared after the revolution war in 1910.

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