Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc Their deeply carved surfaces and

Their deeply carved surfaces and weathered patina give them a striking sculptural quality

These giant rolling temples from South India were pulled by teams of devotional worshipers often hundreds strong

Supplied with a contemporary iron stand

Indian parindas really spice up an English garden and are great pot stands for planters

Japanese Tsugaru Nuri Lacquer Zataku Table - Taisho Era Material - Zinc Their deeply carved surfaces andThis Japanese zataku table (low table, ) is crafted in tsugaru nuri lacquer with inclusions of mother of pearl (raden) flakes. Zataku were known as communal dining tables which came to prominence in the Taish era (1912 1926). It would be a dramatic and functional coffee table. Tsugaru nuri lacquer technique mimics the beautiful depths and patterns on the seabed of Wakasa Bay. It is painstakingly intensive work involving hundreds of layers of lacquer,