How to recognize the carving process on mahogany furniture?

1. The base (the bottom plane of the relief carving) is clean.

2, modeling outline is clear, smooth, and the root foot is clean.

This refers to the modeling and the bottom of the border without dragging, clean. Broadly speaking, the main red woodwork, rosewood work (Qianlong work), Huanghuali work to evaluate a product carving.

Red carpentry: after the middle of the Qing dynasty only after a large number of mahogany, a lot of mahogany on the old wood carving often not straight horizontal and vertical lines, slightly uneven thickness, round line is not smooth enough, the bottom is not too flat, the outline has gone out of focus, the convex convex enough, the concave is not in place. We call this carving "red woodwork".