What processes were used in the synthesis of silverware making in the Qin Dynasty? What are the characteristics of Qin Dynasty silverware?

The Qin Dynasty lasted for a very short period of time, but there were also silverware and decorative items. At this time, Chinese silverware entered a period of rapid development, and it was possible to create beautiful vessels with brilliant colors using a variety of techniques such as casting, soldering, filigree, inlaying and polishing.

In the winter of 1980, 20 meters west of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin Shi Huang unearthed two large bronze carriages, equivalent to half of the real carriages. The second of these carriages was assembled from 3,462 parts of various sizes, on which there were 1,742 bronze parts, 737 gold parts and 983 silver parts. Among them, the silver silver horsebit, silver rape, silver jurisdiction, silver ring, silver bubble, silver collar, etc., are casting molding. Horsebit is the horse chews: trousers is an ancient car parts, shaped like a round Jane, sets in the axle at both ends, there are holes, to wear the jurisdiction; jurisdiction is inserted in the hole at the end of the axle is the trousers hole in the car keys, so that the wheels do not fall off.

According to the study of these silver fittings has been able to prove that the Qin Dynasty silver production has been the integrated use of casting, welding, pinching, embedded casting, filing, polishing, a variety of mechanical connections and gluing and other crafts, but also to the community has reached a very high level. At that time, the qin people also mastered the engraved gilding technology. Qin dynasty silver "gilded dragons and phoenixes silver plate" is very famous, straight mouth, flat rim, folded belly, the bottom of the plate inward slightly concave. Decoration burin gilded, the inner bottom decorated with three coiled dragons, the outer yin engraved four string pattern, the dragon body coiled, feet, the upper part of the side of the shape, the dragon's head back, mouth wide open, almost 180 °; the lower part of the coiled like sitting, curling and winding each other. Plate abdomen decorated with six groups of dragons and phoenixes, exaggerated deformation, complex composition. Straight mouth and flat rim decorated with variants of dragon and phoenix motifs, abstract and simple. The eyes are more specific and recognizable.

This plate is well modeled and beautifully made. Pattern layout is unique, from the bottom of the plate to the plate belly, straight mouth and folding edge to unfold, the decorative surface in order to reduce, pattern is also gradually abstract, so that the main pattern of the bottom of the plate to become the center of vision, focus, rhythm is clear. This plate decoration burin fine, even and smooth lines, only pattern gilded, the ground is silver, yellow and white, very rich sense of decoration. This decorative method is quite popular in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang people called "gold and silver", that is, from this plate.

The Qin Dynasty was short, but its silverware is not inferior.