Platinum #3776 Century Urushi Maki-E Fountain Pen - Poppy

100% original Urushi Maki-E Fountain Pen.The name urushi derives from the word “uruwashii (beautiful)” or “uruoshi (moisten).” It has been used for more than 7,000 years.

The Platinum 3776 Urushi lacquered Maki-e Poppy fountain pen shows a beautiful Poppy flower with abalone chip accents. Each piece is signed by the artist and contains urushi lacquer over resin body. The pen boasts a very smooth-writing 18k gold nib, and the cap features Platinum's patented Slip and Seal mechanism that prevents the nib and feed from drying out for up to two years.

The Platinum 3776 Poppy fountain pen fills with the included proprietary converter for use with bottled ink, or with Platinum cartridges, available in several colors. The pen is presented in a luxurious wooden gift box.

Specifications:
Condition: New
Brand: Platinum
Type: Fountain Pens
Color: Lacquered black resin body with handcrafted maki-e artwork
Trim: Gold plated
Nib Material: 18k Gold
Filling Mechanism: Cartridge filled, Converter filled

Maki-e

Maki-e is a Japanese lacquer art that utilizes urushi lacquer to decorate.

Stemming from the words “maku” meaning “to sprinkle” and “e” meaning “painting,” maki-e is a technique that a gold powder is sprinkled over after undercoating, painting and coloring so as to obtain a luxury and stereoscopic effect.

The quality of maki-e largely depends on the work process of shitaji (undercoating) and uwanuri (top coating) that affect the total outcome, and finally the togidashi (polishing of the surface to make it flat) after the top coating determines the quality of the final work.

The maki-e technique is distinguished from other decorating techniques such as hyomon technique in which haku and kirigane (gold foils thicker than haku) are used other than a gold powder, rankaku technique (decoration using fragments of quail and chicken egg shell to express the white color), and raden craft, which is a decoration made by inlaying shells like abalone.