Ming Dynasty furniture carving art

Ming Dynasty furniture carving is China's carving art collection, in terms of the carving content, landscape figures, birds and animals, flowers, insects and fish, bo ancient artifacts, Western patterns, celebrations, etc., colorful and all-encompassing. If carefully scrutinized, there are some laws can be found. For example, Ming furniture carving in the common birds and beasts pattern clearly with the pre-Qin and Wei Jin and North and South Dynasties statue of the legacy of the majestic and large, so that people can not help but think of the Han Dynasty Palace of the deep simplicity of the six tombs of the beasts of that kind of free and strong style; flowers and figures of auspicious motifs, inherited and carried forward the legacy of the Tang Dynasty, fully embodies a strong grace and luxury, the fullness of the pursuit of luxury aesthetics; landscape figures are often With episodic and storytelling picture; Bogu pattern carving detailed, ancient mood, just like the beauty of the Jinshi topography; Western decoration reflects the aesthetic influence of foreign art.

Ming furniture in the fine carvings, the zitan wood grain in the fine as if swimming in the subtle, heavy and calm rounded, strong and robust texture to play to the fullest, but also to the Huanghuali wood, warm and jade-like mood, the texture of the clouds and water, not warping and not cracking the characteristics of the use of the stove perfected. Ming furniture carving treasures after hundreds of years of weathering, in the surface layer of the object formed a thick pulp, like translucent jade. The carving techniques include round carving, relief carving, relief carving, semi-relief carving, semi-transparent carving and so on. Round carving, mostly used in furniture on the brain, relief, high and shallow points, high relief grain surface raised, multi-layer overlapping.

Shallow relief carving with a knife instead of a pen, as line drawing. Transparent carving, is the part of the pattern outside the removal of hollowing, resulting in the beauty of the virtual and real, exquisite and transparent. It has a side for and two sides for the difference, two-sided carving in the plane in pursuit of similar to the effect of round carving.

Translucent carving is mostly used for partitions, screens, shelf beds, hangers, mirrors and so on.

Half-relief and half-transparent carving, mainly used in the table and case of the dental plate and dental head, showing a confusing beauty. First of all: the alignment of the line feet to produce an extremely dynamic rhythm. According to different furniture styles, the use of different feet, will produce a very different decorative effect, through the natural and smooth feet trend, we can taste the Ming furniture carving art rich in the flow of the wonderful rhythm.

Secondly, the curved structure is the soul of Ming furniture carving art. Ming-style furniture in the pot door post, three legs, light, peng tooth, drum leg, turning horseshoe, cloud pattern tooth head, drum nail, etc., not only has a reinforcement, support, practical function, but also played a role in embellishing the role of embellishment, reflecting the characteristics of the carving process.

Finally: beautiful modeling that is a complete sculptural masterpiece. China's traditional furniture modeling, the architectural art of connecting the orderly, interspersed with degrees, as well as Sumeru seat of the stable and firm, balanced and harmonious, beautiful and transparent oriental aesthetic charm to the extreme, all reflecting the square and heavy three-dimensional modeling.