I'm conducting research for a paper (unrelated to beads) and I came across these images while on the virtual cities site Beadiste mentioned.

Chris, there are a couple more lacquer images; I was going to send them to you later today, but here they are:

http://beijing.virtualcities.fr/Photos/Images?as=66

(If this link doesn't take you to the images, look up Beijing/images/then click on “b” or search for image no. 11038 and 11039.)

Chris, have you found a translate function on this site?