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Embroidery Fragrant Purse (Qing Dynasty)

Fragrant Purse, also known as scent bag, incense bag, refers to the embroidery small articles that can be hung, which is an appreciated work of art in ancient China.

In ancient times, the purse, scented bag and scented bag is slightly different. Fragrance bags and scented pouches for a single put spices, smaller than the purse, while the purse does not necessarily have the use of spices. Usually the bag is filled with spices known as scented bag, empty bag is used as a gift to each other, or to pray for auspicious decoration, or to hold decorative treasures, known as the purse. The difference between the bag and the bag, mainly because the bag is a bottom of a cover strung on the ribbon, can not be divided into the bottom of the cover. We will be these small Pei hanging always known as incense purse.

Belonging to the family of incense purse items are also embroidered money purse, cigarette purse, pouch purse, glasses purse, fan sets, incense pendant and so on. Money purse is used to load money, can also be used as a love object between men and women. Smoke purse is loaded with cigarettes, mostly vertical long or gourd-shaped, easy to probe into the pouch to load the tobacco. Gourd-shaped smoke bag, the center of the brake, to prevent the spread of smoke flavor. Qing Dynasty Li Jingshan wrote "to add the door miscellaneous chorus" on the production of gourd purse has a wonderful description: "for the holding of tobacco leaves, light Balmoral, made a variety of different purse, do not know who passes the wonderful system, families follow the pattern of painting gourds." Fan set is a bag containing folding fan, hanging around the waist. Qing anonymous "all the door bamboo lyrics" has mentioned: "gold thread purse narrow belt hanging, gauze robe fan most fresh and beautiful." Corset pouch is an ancient bag bag, cloth long, central mouth, the two ends of the sagging, into two bags. Corset purse is modeled after the look of the bag made of the purse. Spectacles purse is not only the container of glasses, but also flaunts the owner of the elegant, literati a kind of good luck. Fragrance pendant is a kind of purse, slightly smaller, modeling pomegranate, peach, Buddha's hand, flower basket, goldfish, mountain, etc., many patterns with symbolic meaning. These embroideries also belong to the "incense purse series".

There are three main channels for purchasing embroidered scented purse, one from the antique store specializing in ancient embroidery to buy, two from the antique market stalls on the search, three from the folk to buy. Fragrant bags due to age, workmanship, prices vary greatly. From the market, the Qing Dynasty embroidery, richly patterned incense purse about four or five hundred dollars a, the best one two or three thousand dollars, the general old incense purse in a three hundred dollars or so. New embroidery incense purse a only sell a few dollars. Therefore, the purchase of incense purse must identify its age, craftsmanship and old and new.

Era. Now can see most of the incense purse for the Qing Dynasty and Republic of China works, but the Qing Dynasty, Republic of China, there are years early and late, distinguish the age of folk fashion and embroidery to study more of each era of needlework and process characteristics, to figure out the works of each time period revealed the information of the times.

Craftsmanship. Embroidered scented purse for hand-woven embroidery, its workmanship and conception must be high and low points. Some exquisite workmanship, beautiful patterns, some shoddy workmanship, simple texture; some out of the hands of the clever daughter-in-law, some for the lazy mother-in-law embroidered. Collectors should be good at distinguishing between good and bad, classified road. Generally speaking, the pattern and embroidery complex, high value; simple shoddy, low value. Fragrant purse embroidery varieties, there are flat embroidery, hit the child embroidery, embroidery, flat gold, woof, etc.. Among them to woof incense purse highest grade, the most collectible.

Old and new. Nowadays, some tourist markets and stalls are also sold on the new incense purse. Some openly state that it is new, and some deliberately new products as old products, or new products as old, pretending to be old products. In fact, the difference between new and old products is very big, new old after all, "do" out, and even machine embroidery production. Careful observation, you will know the difference.

Purchase Tibetan purse is also a learning experience, especially on the ancient knowledge of embroidery, collectors must have in-depth understanding, to learn to appreciate in order not to be fooled.

The rich and powerful flowers incense purse (qing)

Fook in front of the incense purse (qing)