LATE 17TH EARLY 18TH CENTURY, THE STAND GEORGE III

The term lac burgaut was perhaps first coined in Histoire de la Porcelaine (1862) to describe porcelain covered in mother-of-pearl lacquer and subsequently to refer to any type of mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquer. The word is derived from 'Burgau', a type of brightly-coloured mother-of-pearl.