1066 MINI - Vietnam's Ha Long Bay at Night, in Polychrome Lacquer

This depicts a still very common river village in Vietnam where nearly 80% of the population live in rural communities.

The village is a basis of Vietnam society. Vietnam's village is a symbol of Asian aquaculture and agriculture production. It typically contains a village gate, a communal house – used as the local large market and a place where an exceptional individual who became deified after death is worshiped. There is also a common water well well, rice field, and houses of the village families.

Although it is changing now, traditionally people in Vietnam's villages have a blood relationship. They are farmers who grow rice and have the same traditional handicraft. An important role in society is that "Custom rules the law,” meaning the king's (or national) law yields to village (or provincial) customs.

Vietnamese Lacquer ware is renowned for the finest hand made painted and inlaid designs. Vietnam is renowned for careful craftsmanship that makes it’s art uniquely recognized and cherished. Lacquer Manufacturing techniques are thousands of years old and have not varied very much in all that time.

The Real Life process for each piece is months long. It includes carving, sanding & assembly before 16 to 25 steps of repeated coatings of clay and lacquer and hand rubbing. Each piece is carefully crafted using combinations of paint, seashell, mother of pearl, & eggshell, followed by detailed hand-painting and of course even more hand rubbing to attain the mirror-like high shine finish.

The surface areas are painted with polychrome lacquers. The design areas are painted with a special clear lacquer. The artwork is then entirely coated at least two more times with clear lacquer. Finally it is highly polished with wax.

Vietnamese artists use a technique which gives a richer mix of colors and an added sense of size and distance. Using common elements for color (egg yolk for deep yellows) is common.

Family, historic, modern, mythical, romantic, and traditional settings using sumptuous colors & stunning designs include deer, dragon, eagle, Koi fish, peacock, pagoda, students in their Ao Dai (the traditional Vietnamese dress), Ha Long Bay, rice fields, river villages, and even Wat Pho in Bangkok.

We show our entire collection here in the Marketplace. We rotate many of the pieces at ROYAL THAI GALLERY where we show the works in greatly enlarged sizes to help you see the details and wondrous colors.

We offer a few lacquer panels as ORIGINAL works of art in SL, sold in editions of not more than five pieces after which we will never again sell these designs in SL other than as TRANS-only miniatures. All ORIGINALS are shown here in the Marketplace. Some are shown in the ROYAL THAI GALLERY on a rotating basis.

Our MINI (miniature) products are intended to serve the same function as mass-produced reproductions play in RL galleries and museums. These are faithful but much smaller and less costly reproductions, made available to the general public who want to enjoy our ORIGINAL and standard art but can't see their way clear... at present... to paying the higher prices needed for better quality.

The MINIs are sold as TRANS only. While the buyer can enjoy the beauty of the design, the MINIs cannot be enlarged to display the full range of the truly exquisite design details seen the larger products. Our entire MINI collection is here at Marketplace. To see our full MINI collection in world, visit our SKY DOME MINI GALLERY. Go first to the Royal Pavilion in are main gallery’s rotunda entry at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kingsdoms%20Heart/209/130/26 and then TP up to http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kingsdoms%20Heart/208/126/126

Our policies for ORIGINALS are set forth on the attached PDF document and are described at ROYAL THAI GALLERY.

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