Then beginning in the closing years of the Eastern Han dynasty (3rd century AD) and continuing over a period of several centuries, the technique of lacquer-ware production spread eastward to Korea and Japan. Much later, in the 17th century, lacquer-ware manufacturing spread to Europe. In the land of its birth, however, lacquer ware was by that time falling out of favor.
漢、唐之際，漆工技術東傳韓國、日本，直到十七世紀，西傳至歐洲，但在發祥地的華人社會，卻逐漸失去對漆器的鍾愛。