Dolphin and Fish Red Lacquer Earrings

Presenting a set of gracefully cuteness earrings, adorned with exquisitely carved red lacquer sourced from an antique Chinese fan, and meticulously crafted designed with enamel fish (lined with in 18K gold) and dolphin (lined with 14K gold). Complementing this design is an artful blue sapphire pollen dok kaew flower in carved mother of pearl. 
Red lacquer is an eastern material collected from nature with extraordinary properties, like water proof with high heat resistance, flexibility and is not and is not available in the west.

Red lacquer has been around for thousands of years for waterproof containers
and both the Chinese and Japanese civilizations have refined the application of lacquer into ART. The Chinese (where it all started)  developed the cinnabar, red lacquer by adding layers over layers of red natural lacquer on top of each other, each layer had to be dried and polished and it would take up to one hundred layers before the layers were thick enough for carving. Each layer would take 1-3 days and special ratios of oil and lacquer had to be kept to make sure that the lacquer could be still carved after 4-7 months of layering. It is then hand carved with master carvers, making them stunning pieces, often used in art installations and Jewellery.

This piece took over 2 months to finish, with over 4 craftsmen and designers involved at various stages.

Blue Sapphire: 0.09 ct.

Dimension: (Dolphin) 2.07 (W) x  6.13 (L) x 1.26 (D) cm.
Dimension: (Fish) W 1.56 L 6.1 D 1.35 cm.
Weight: 18.34 g.