The Han had extended Chinese ... cup is wood, and through some of the damage you can just see that wood, but of course most of it's covered in layer after layer of reddish-brown lacquer.

VIETNAM - Late 19th century Buddha statuette in gold and red lacquered wood, seated in padmasana on a double lotus-shaped base, hands in dhyana mudra (meditation gesture). (Accents, missing lacquer, ...