Classical Furniture

Furniture, from saying and include and produce Yu the quality, furniture of different style, different schools of QingDai on being literal Qing Dynasty. The furniture of Qing Dynasty, distinguished and took the place of" bright type furniture" and" clear type furniture" made again. Now what should recommend is" clear type furniture".

Clear type furniture from beginning to sprout to forming independent system is roughly at clear Kang Xi fours from one's early years to old ages, not between the one year, It has contacts with influence of full culture. This takes imperial family as the leading factor, in the palace and folk influencing each other, exchange each other, Developed while creating together.

First, wide in variety, style changeable, pursue very skillful. The clear type family has variety and design of a lot of former generation, the modeling is changed especially infinity . Taking common clear type armchair as an example, on the basis of its basic structure, The craftsman produce uncountable styles to turn into the body. The designs of furniture pay attention to the changes of modeling very much too form oneseIf the Palace Museum gargle sweet-smelling the each of room form a complete set treasure pavilion more, words choose and turn on and discharge by the wall, Unified entity with the room, cut apart into more than 100 pieces of matrix and separate story in picturesque disorderly, Separate although pattern duplicate each other, seen from side, each separate" cripple" mountain turning on the light of different figures the sides of one each time, For instance shape of Chinese flowering crabapple, covering of a fan shape, shape, single sonorous stone shape, shape of leaf of several broadleaf plants as one wishes etc. Numerous. Clear type furniture common imitative bamboos also in forms, imitate rattan, imitate bronze, imitate rockery the wood furniture of stone even. Conversely, the imitative wooden furniture that has bamboo, rattan which is made too, the stone is made. On the structure, the clear type furniture is often the only luck of the ingenuity too, very witty, Such as,the treasure case pretty and cleverly-made, have box of caseses, There are caskets in the box, there are steamer trays in the casket, the steamer tray hides the dark storehouse, Indistinct twists . The closing of the drawer and cupboard door also has keys, but it is abstruse not to watch carefully.

Two, selected a suitable person to pay attention to, the workmanship is careful . On selectedding a suitable person, clear type praise highly color and luster dark, quality dense, lamination detailed precious hardwood by furniture, It is first-selected with the red sandalwood wood. In the structure is made, in order to guarantee that the color and luster lamination of appearance is unanimous, too for being firm and firm, Take woods act as in succession and need little wooden concatenations often.

Third, pay attention to decorating, the tactics are various. It is the clear type most remarkable characteristic of furniture to pay attention to decorating. The craftsman nearly used all ornament materials utilized in Qing Dynasty, Try all ornament tactics that can be adopted, tax one's ingenuity especially in the furniture combine with various kinds of handicrafts . The ornament tactics that the clear type furniture adopts at most are the carve and inlaid, a one hundred sheets of engineering is in every possible way , Skill of drawing lessons from , paint carve ivory carving, bamboo carving etc at the tactics, the grinder also investigates by every means, Will carve polishing and line stupefied and clearly demarcated , is like the jade smoothly. It inlays to be at different materials according to designing good patterns imbed implements surface, furniture inlay the wood, inlay bamboos, inlay stones, inlay the porcelain, inlay the mother-of-pearl inlay, inlay glazing etc., Innovate in pattern or design, changeable.

Fourth, Western to influence, the good green bristlegrass is uneven. In the clear type furniture, the person who adopts Western decorative design or the tactics occupy and analogous to proportion, More obvious with the wide type furniture particularly. There are two kinds of forms probably by the Western clear type furniture that influences, one adopt Western furniture design and structure, Export although early this type of furniture partly, fail to form the scale , the clear end, this kind of" foreign type", prevails once again , The west in scarcely, work coarsly , it is difficult to step on the hall of the elegance; The second kind is to adopt the modeling of the antique traditional furniture, structure, adopt Western furniture style or the decorations of the line partly. For instance, there is a bunch of waists chair traditionally, regard pattern of lotus of Western as carve etc.

Clear type ways, Move towards many and misellaneous with triflesly in pursueing novelly , move towards extravagant and wastefully in pursueing luxuriously.