Spanish Lacquer Furniture. Connections with Europe and Asia

Abstract

Spanish lacquer also called charol is a decorative technique that, like the rest of European lacquers, tried to emulate the oriental ones. Furniture was among the Works of Art that were most frequently decorated with charol. This article will expose some of the characteristics of charol furniture and its connections with lacquer furniture from other European countries and with Asian lacquers. This is intended to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge of this spanish artistic parcel so peculiar and hardly known.