Hejiacun Tang dynasty cellar of gold and silverware of gold and silverware found

In October 1970, in the southern suburb of Xi'an, Shaanxi Hejiacun Tang Chang'an City Xinghua Square, found a Tang Dynasty cellar, in two 65 cm high, 60 cm diameter of the belly of the giant urns and a 30 cm high, diameter of the belly of the 25 cm of the large silver jar, storage of more than 1,000 pieces of gold and silver, jade, precious stones, golden stone jewelry, gold and silver currency, silver collars, silver cakes and medicinal herbs. Among them, 265 pieces of gold and silver artifacts, an unprecedented discovery of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty.

Gold and silver, eating and drinking utensils, bowls, plates, dishes, cups, pots, goblets and other 130 pieces, medicinal pots, boxes, clangs, ampoules, pomegranate jars and other 49 pieces, toiletries have pots, pans, water vessels, such as 14 pieces, daily necessities have lamps, smokers, smoky balls, locks and keys, such as 32 pieces, decorative items have hairpin, bracelets, bells and other 40 pieces.

Hejiacun gold and silver ware have chronological memory, the latest is successive Anxian Kaiyuan nineteen years (731) Yongtong silver cake. However, according to the Tang Dynasty pattern and gold and silver ware form of dating, the upper limit can be as early as the middle of the 7th century, the lower limit can be up to the middle of the 8th century.

The gold and silver wares belonging to the middle of the 7th century include a number of silver bowls with the trailing grass dragon and phoenix motif, silver bowls with lotus petals in the double lion motif, silver bowls with cloud petals in the sea-beast motif, high-footed silver cups with hunting motifs, eight-pronged gold cups with figures, eight-pronged gold cups with lekku (music and music), gold cups with silk clusters and gold cups with a single-handled gold clapper in the double lion motif. The decorative surface of these objects, the use of twelve petal division techniques, and more S-shaped or U-shaped petals; the bottom of a welded decorative discs, especially the emergence of eight-pronged objects, obviously influenced by the Sassanian silver craft, reflecting the era of the early Tang dynasty gold and silverware characteristics.

Gold and silver manufacturing process is complex and fine, cutting, polishing, welding, riveting, plating and other processes have been commonly used. Welding has big welding, small welding, pinch wire welding, skillful, welded seams are not easy to find. Particularly noteworthy is that in the plate, box, bowl and other objects, there are obvious traces of cutting, starting and falling knife point significant, the knife jump can also be seen. Small gold plate thread concentricity is very strong, fine grain, the box of the sub-button system taper processing, son and mother buckle contact closed, few objects axis swing situation, proving that the cutting process has become mature, which in the history of the Chinese machinery industry should be a more important discovery.