Ming-style furniture, decoration craft

Multi-site carving of the Ming Dynasty in the seat between the teeth foot column back on the board or the backplane and the end components. Ming Dynasty carving only the role of eye-dotting or contrast. There were shallow engraved sculpture techniques, there are ground relief, deep carving, carving and other legislation. The use of symmetric composition, or appear in a balanced composition symmetrical patterns. A variety of subjects, animals have a dragon and phoenix patterns, Varicorhinus tiger, Qiu Kui, lions, deer, a unicorn. Stria plants there , peonies, pendula, Ganoderma lucidum, Po-phase flowers. Other patterns are cross pattern, stria million characters, ice cracks, smug cloud the first pattern, Yuhuan stripes, cord, moire, water and flame patterns, such as geometric patterns.

Ming furniture to those less landscape carving to poetry and painting for decorative inscriptions are relatively more, which is the art of the late Ming literati style of a high degree of development. Today handed down four late Ming literati (Zhou ball, Wen Zhengming, Zhu Chi Shan, Dong Qichang) writing paragraph Ming Ming literati style seating is under the influence of the representative, and its inscribed calligraphy more to improve the artistic value of the seat.

Metal for furniture accessories, mostly for the protection of client or for the reinforcement angle and focus settings, followed by the role of landscaping. Copper-nickel alloy ornaments mainly used for materials. Copper-nickel alloy for copper-nickel alloy, color and soft, rather than brass. Emperors used in the High on, there is a monolithic on the chisel-yang pattern, hammer on the metallic gold-plated metal parts. Commonly used ornaments have face pages, hinge, angle, and certain special pieces of metal. Side pages, often hinge round, rectangular, rectangular-shaped head, such as wishful cloud.