Generally speaking, Ming style furniture, many people immediately think of is the hardwood furniture represented by Huanghuali furniture. In fact, Su Zuo's hardwood furniture is only one aspect of it. From the technical point of view, Ming style furniture should also include Jing Zuo and Jin Zuo furniture.
Su Zuo is a hardwood carving furniture made in Suzhou. Its materials are mainly yellow pears, followed by red sandalwood, elm and nanmu. Expertise in material selection, ingredients, proportioning, structural science, precision, engraving and line processing; Jing Zuo, the royal imperial guard of Beijing (the institution of the Ming Dynasty court specializing in the manufacture of supplies), lacquer, paint Furniture. Jingzuo furniture is made of materials, and the wood used is from the same kind of wood. The decoration is splendid and gorgeous, and the golden jewels are the lacquered furniture of Shanxi.
In the 272-year history of the Ming Dynasty, hardwood furniture only accounted for the last 70 years. At that time, people admired the natural beauty, and Huanghuali furniture became the mainstream of high-end furniture. First, the literati participated in the design and popularized in the folk, and then entered the court for the royal family. Ming style furniture features distinct features: first, generous shape, moderate proportion, concise outline, and stretchable; second, structural science, precision, solid and solid; third, it is good at selecting materials and ingredients, and paying attention to the natural texture and color of the wood itself; Fourth, the engraving line is handled properly. For example, the Ming and Qing styles are different on the decorative pattern. The Ming Dynasty is a crepe pattern, all of which are represented by arcs. They are all round turns. When engraving, the sharp edges and corners are rounded, soft and very subtle. In the Qing dynasty, the enamel pattern was loved, all of which were right-angled turns, and the sharp edges were exposed; the fifth is that the Ming-style furniture has various metal ornaments and soft colors, which play a very good decorative role.
Divided from the artistic style, Ming-style furniture can be roughly classified into two types: simple and sturdy.
The simple type refers to those furniture that are whole body light and without carving. Generally, only a variety of line angles are decorated on the edge of the furniture component, and some simply decorate a set of simple patterns in the center or prominent position of the furniture, and only serve as a partial embellishment or a finishing touch. This kind of furniture mainly originated from the south of the Yangtze River with cultural prosperity and economic prosperity. There are many things that are literati involved in the design, very elegant and adapt to the needs of the literati life. The Yuhua type refers to the decoration of complex and dense carvings on the furniture, as well as the non-carving pattern, and the small pieces of wood are used to make the plaques into a variety of regular geometric patterns to highlight the process structure. Although there are many carvings, the workmanship is extremely fine; although the splicing is complicated, it is very regular and has an overall decorative effect, giving people a rich and precious weather without cumbersome problems. The furniture of Yuhua type is relatively more ceremonial style furniture.
In general, Ming style furniture is mostly well-crafted. In order to pursue artistic effects, it is not difficult to use large materials to produce soft and delicate components. Such as the back of the chair, the armrests, the three-legged legs of the incense, etc., no matter how big the bending angle is, they are excavated with a large material, and these scraped materials need to be used as much as possible. In the Ming Dynasty, the masters of the Ming Dynasty made great things, and the principle of small materials as a foil, formed an important feature of Ming style furniture.
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