A bronze mirror inlaid with glazed jade was also unearthed from the Jincun Tomb in the eastern suburbs of Yangluo.
This is the mirror I mentioned before. It has no buttons, is inlaid with round blue colored glass, and has a white loop pattern on it.
The coat has a jade ring as the button base.
It is surrounded by blue colored glaze and decorated with white eye-shaped or alstroemeria patterns. It is extremely beautiful.
In fact, the glazed eyeballs from the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period were mostly ball-shaped, small and irregular.
Compared with the traditional cloud patterns, panchi patterns, dragons, wall evil and other patterns on jade or metal objects in my country during the same period, it is more difficult to capture in the mirror.
However, the dragonfly eyes have a unique decorative style. After being embedded using a flat inlay technique, the center point is dark blue and the outer layer is brown and white or blue and white.
The embedded eyeballs are integrated, neither protruding nor easy to fall off.
The inlaid glazed jade bronze mirror is made using this technique.
The Warring States Period glass cup inlaid with dragonfly eye patterns is equally exquisite.
Up to now, it is difficult to copy the ancient colored glaze.
Especially less between one and one point seven centimeters.
For example, there were only four domestic auctions, and only two transactions were completed.
Although dragonfly eyes were produced in small quantities during the Spring and Autumn Period, and not many dragonfly eyes have been unearthed today, after 2010, there are still many dragonfly eyes.
In 2014, a dragonfly eye auspicious animal ornament from the Ming Dynasty was auctioned for 64,000 yuan.
The representative work among them is not the Seven Gods Expo Mirror of the Dongping and Han Dynasties.
Yun Wenpan is also very interested in that point, because the Sui Marquis Pearl in my hand was once considered by the ancients to be a glass bead.
That kind of colorful, dark and eye-catching West Asian glass beads were extremely loved by your kings and nobles at that time. Is that right?
Maybe you are curious about glass beads. Why are glass beads so expensive?
The "eye" culture is said to have originated in West Asia or India. We doubt the belief that eyes have no function of warding off evil spirits.
In the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period, the glass eyeballs were mostly spherical and regular, none of them resembling an oblate square or an oblate drum shape.
Those bronze mirrors are of different styles, gleaming and shining, reflecting thousands of years with sound, which makes people think about the ancient times. One of the Seven Gods Expo mirrors in the Han Dynasty is a precious fine product. The reason for recognition is mainly because of the current
Glass products haven’t ruined the streets yet.
To put it simply, the Pearl of the Sui Dynasty, even if it is beautiful, is extremely valuable, how can it be bought for 7 million?
Bird decorations continued until the Western Han Dynasty and appeared in small quantities as auxiliary decorations in very few types of decorations.
If so, the glaze, glass, and crystal products you buy now are all made by Chinese companies, and have become luxury goods, then it will be more unacceptable.
Gilt copper inlaid with sapphire grain pattern, dragonfly eyes, glass beads and dragon hook, sold for 370,000 yuan in 2019.
Therefore, the Suihou Pearl was considered to be a rough and gorgeous Warring States Glazed Bead!
However, colored glaze and glass are the same.
Pearls are mostly green, blue or yellow, and the parent body is translucent.
During the Han Dynasty, the production of bronze mirrors increased, and the role of bronze mirrors in tombs as practical objects gradually became less important than those of bright objects.
Since the end of the Warring States period, there have not been a small number of bird decorations. Among them, there are neither more realistic bird patterns nor a few variations, exaggerated, and complicated Kuifeng patterns.
And continue to be used in handicrafts, making China's glaze craftsmanship and quality dominate the world, and its charm will reach a higher level.
And those very small parts come from ancient tombs, which has nothing to do with the tomb system at that time.
It is said that Sui Hou, the monarch of Sui country, rescued an injured snake during a trip.
After the little snake recovered, he gave a luminous pearl to Suihou, which was called "Mingyue Pearl" or "Suihou Pearl" by the ancients.
However, although that museum is large, there are many exquisite ancient bronze mirrors hidden outside.
As for the Warring States period glazed beads, they are made of glazes of several colors, layered into a composite ring, just like the compound eyes of a dragonfly.
Because the dragonfly eyes of the late Warring States period are different from those of the late Spring and Autumn Period or the early Warring States Period, the decorations are gorgeous and varied, with circular patterns that are either raised or carved, creating a bulging effect, and the craftsmanship is more exquisite.
Speaking of which, this jade mirror is inlaid with glazed glass, and its main decorative pattern is decorated with cloud patterns. Such cloud patterns are common in jade objects from the Warring States Period.
The decoration is complex, using geometric patterns commonly used in West Asia, which are the same as the traditional cloud patterns, panchi patterns, dragons, wall evil and other patterns found on jade or metal objects in China during the same period.
Glaze is fired at a high temperature of more than 1,400 degrees.
During the migration of nomadic people, wearing those inlaid glass beads under their body could not ward off evil spirits, and on the other hand, they could not be used to exchange for needed things at any time.
Because dragonfly eyes are so old and colored glaze is difficult to copy, collectors are very cautious.
Yun Wenpan looked at the bronze vessels one after another. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, there were no mirrors of all kinds.
That price is very low. I will sell it at a lower price in the future, mainly because the market recognizes it.
Among them, the most unknown one is said to be the treasure of the glass bead, not the bead of the Sui marquis.
It is the same as the traditional cloud patterns, panchi patterns, dragons, wall evil and other patterns on Chinese jade or metal objects of the same period.
The decoration is complex and uses geometric patterns commonly used in West Asia.
To put it more complicated, it is not beautiful.
But as Liuli's worth rose, the value of Dragonfly Eyes gradually became famous.
The kind of glass beads inlaid with "composite eyes" were introduced to your country during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
The gilt copper inlaid with sapphire grain pattern, dragonfly eyes, glazed beads and dragon hook are equally precious.
I saw that it was colorful and beautiful. It was truly a treasure.
That museum is not famous. Yun Wenpan is definitely from Qilu, and Wuqing would also know about that museum.
Dragonfly eye glass beads are a product of "eye culture".
If it is embedded under the utensils, the price will naturally be high.
Glaze is inherently precious, and the Dragonfly Eyes of the Warring States Period are of unparalleled beauty that transcend eras and regions.
Therefore, Shaosheng is shaped by the grassland people engaged in animal husbandry.
But that mirror was copied from a museum in Dongping, Qilu.
In the tombs during the Warring States Period, it can be seen that bronze mirrors were used instead of jade bis for burials.
I hope that with the development of history, the dragonfly eye craft will not be further developed and inherited.
Bronze mirrors were used for burials. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in addition to being buried in the same location and manner as jade bis, misappropriation can also be seen in the decorations.
Except for the Suzaku in the Seven Spirits, there are no small amounts of bird patterns in the regular mirror, the mythical beast mirror, and the portrait mirror.
The size is relatively large, with the smallest diameter being seven centimeters.
After more than ten manual processes of fine polishing, the mother stone of crystal glass is melted in a furnace with a temperature of over 1000c, and then naturally condenses into a noble, gorgeous, and self-defeating glass.
"When the window is tidy, the hair on the temples is trimmed, and when the mirror is facing the mirror, the decals are yellow."
Facing the less than 50 exquisite bronze mirrors in the Dongping Museum, one can easily imagine the scenes of ancient people taking care of their faces and beautifying their faces.
Friends who hate playing with colored glaze may have heard that colored glaze beads cost 5 million in the Warring States period and 200,000 in the Han Dynasty.