Current location:Home >->Ming and Qing Furniture
What is Firewood Furniture？
Apart from hardwood, firewood is also used to make antique furniture in China. Firewood furniture is also called softwood furniture, or brushwood furniture. Here is a brief introduction to the wood types most commonly used in the making of firewood furniture.
The Lacquer Furniture
The Chinese has a long history of using lacquer. Primitive lacquer ware has been found in Hemudu culture, which dates back to 7000 years ago. The original color of lacquer is quite monotonous, usually dark brown, and it will be nearly black after repeated coating. If added with vermillion, the lacquer looks vermeil. Hence the lacquer wares handed down from the Warring States Period and the Han Dynasty are mostly in black and vermeil.
Tips on Antique Furniture
When selecting antique furniture, you should pay attention to the texture of material. The hardwood is higher in density, finer in veins, and heavier in weight, so it is more precious than softwood. For instance, the prices of rosewood and scentedrose (huanghuali) wood are quite expensive. And the softwood includes nanmu, beech, elm, cypress, Chinese catalpa, fir, whitewood, camphor, and so on. The pricing of antique furniture should mainly be based on the “age, texture, rarity, integrality and design.” The furniture made of hardwood like rosewood and scentedrose wood could be sold at a...
Furniture, plays different roles in traditional weddings
The traditional wedding customs in China have a long history. As recorded in details in the Ceremonies and Rituals, a traditional Chinese wedding ceremony usually involves 6 procedures, namely, proposing, birthday matching, presenting betrothal gifts, presenting wedding gifts, picking auspicious wedding date, wedding ceremony, wherein furniture plays different roles in different steps.
Why Chinese Classical Furniture Is So Expensive?
Chinese classical furniture, especially furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties, as high-value and high-risk objects of investment, is pursued and admired by the high-income pursuer. A rosewood Arhat bed with passionflower and bogu patterns of Qianlong period in the Qing Dynasty was sold at China Guardian Spring Auction for RMB 32,480,000, setting a world price record for Chinese classical furniture.
Imbued with Emotion - Decoration Patterns of Classical Furniture
Furniture from Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially the Qing-style furniture, has attached particular importance to the application of decoration as the way of embodying its rich cultural connotations. That is why the decoration of the furniture is in conformity with the popular gorgeous and sumptuous styles advocated in Qing Dynasty. In terms of the decorative patterns, except the geometric designs, the furniture from Ming and Qing dynasties tend to use plants, animals, characters and other historical stories and folk tales to express emotions such as devotion, expectation, pursuit and...
Why is the nail prohibited in rosewood furniture?
Ever since the Hemudu Neolithic Age as early as more than 7000 years ago, ancestors of the Chinese people had began to use the mortise and tenon joint. As one of the unique and special techniques in China, the mortise and tenon structure has a long history and is the core of the Chinese-style furniture, which is also called the traditional furniture.
Gold-embedded color lacquer table with flower patterns
Its whole body is painted with reddish yellow lacquer and decorated with gold-embedded colored patterns. The surface is depicted with magnolia flower, Chinese rose and dragonfly in red, white, green and black. Outline and venation of the patterns are profiled with fine gold-embedded scribing point. The table legs are decorated with patterns of grape, finger citron, walnut core, etc. Central part of its bottom side is engraved with gold-filled regular scripts, which read “made in Kangxi Period of the Qing Dynasty”.
Display Cabinet with Engraved Bird Designs
Zitan wood.
Qing Dynasty. Length 170 cm. Width 76 cm. Height 218 cm.
Painting Table
Huanghuali wood.
Ming Dynasty. Height 82.5 cm. Top 151 * 69 cm.