漆器工艺在我国源远流长。早在战国时期，就已经出现。到秦汉时期走上了兴旺发展的道路，明清时期达到了鼎盛。漆器是苏州古玩城经营艺术品门类之一，特别是扬州漆器。扬州漆器起源于战国，兴旺于秦汉，鼎盛于明清，发展于当代,已有两千四百多年的历史。2006年，扬州漆器被列入国家级非物质遗产保护名录。扬州漆器制作技艺主要有九大工艺门类：点螺工艺、雕漆工艺、雕漆嵌玉工艺、刻漆工艺、平磨螺钿工艺、彩绘（雕填）工艺、骨石镶嵌工艺、楠木雕漆砂砚工艺、磨漆画制作工艺。这里我们将首先介绍雕漆、雕漆嵌玉、点螺和点螺楠木雕漆砂砚工艺。 

        雕漆及雕漆嵌玉工艺
        雕漆工艺创制于唐代，该工艺须在所制造器物上髹涂数十层到几百层中国大漆，然后雕刻成各种图案和锦纹，纹样精美，刀法圆润。到了明清时期，扬州漆器艺人在雕漆工艺基础上，选用翡翠、玛瑙、青金、白玉、珊瑚、碧玉、珠贝、象牙等几十种高档材料，雕琢成各种浮雕图案向前在雕漆锦纹之上，称为扬州独创的雕漆嵌玉工艺。
        Lacquer caiving technique was created during the Tang Dynasty. The first procedure of the technique is coating about one hundred to hundreds of layers of the Chinese raw lacquer on the object and then carving various patterns and beautiful decorative designs with full knife technique. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, on the basis of lacquer carving technique, the craftsmen of Yangzhou lacquerware selected and used jadeite agate, lapis white jade, coral green jade, pearl shells, ivory and other high-grade materials to carve different relief designs and then inlaid them onto the lacquer carving decorative patterns. It is a kind of creative Lacquer carving and jade inlaying technique in Yangzhou.

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        点螺工艺

        点螺工艺为国家重点保护的高档工艺，“点”指技法，“螺”是材料。即选用自然色彩的夜光螺、珍珠贝、石决明等高档材料精制而成薄如蝉翼、小如针尖、细若秋毫的螺片，用特制的髹漆工艺，是产品具有色彩绮丽、随光变幻的艺术风格。多年来多件点螺作品被国家选为国礼赠送给外国元首或作为国家真品所藏。
        Mother-of-pearl dotting technique is protected specially by our country as a high-grade technique. “Dotting” means technique and “pearl” means material. The process of this technique is selecting green snails, peal shell, abalone and other high-grad materials to cut into many pieces as thin as cicada wings, as small as pinpoint and as dainty as autumn hair. Then they are dotted onto the smooth surface of the lacquerware base with special tools one by one. By means of delicate lacquercoating technique, the product has airtistic style with gorgeous colors and can change with light. Over the years many of the mother-of-pearl dotted products have been selected as state gifts to the foreign heads by our country or collected as national treasures.

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图片来源：苏州古玩城

        点螺楠木雕漆砂砚工艺
       “漆砂砚”始于宋，大成于明代扬州著名漆艺大师卢映之、卢葵生祖孙之手，清后期，其工艺失传。1979年由我厂研制，于1981年3月恢复，并经专家鉴定，确认扬州漆砂砚具有资质滋润、坚而不顽、细而不滑、发墨而不伤毫的特色，可与端、歙二砚比美。
“Lacquer ink-slab”was created during the Song Dynasty and greatly developed by the famous lacquer masters Lu Ying-Zhi and Lu Kui-sheng during the Ming Dynasty, The technique was lost during the late period of the Qing dynasty. In 1979, our factory began to develop it and resumed it in March, 1981, and then was appraised by relevant experts. The product has the characteristics with moist endowment, strong but not hard, delicate but not slippery, giving off ink without damaging hair and can be on a par with Duan ink-slab and She ink-slab.

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