Chapter 1913: A red lacquered wooden bowl with a history of more than 7,000 years
Obviously, the lacquerware stick discovered by Chen Wenzhe should have been made by nobles during the Northern Wei Dynasty.
Because neither lacquer ware nor horse ware can be owned by ordinary people.
Therefore, even if this item is not a palace gift given to the Lord of Rouran, its value is still very high.
Suddenly, a treasure was discovered. Although it didn't look very beautiful, its historical value was quite high.
When he encounters something he likes, Chen Wenzhe naturally buys it without hesitation.
As for those root carvings and petrified wood, they are already in the bag, but Chen Wenzhe is not too fancy about them.
At this time, Chen Wenzhe discovered that in addition to petrified wood being a top-quality material, lacquer seemed to be a top-quality material as well.
Good wood carvings, combined with lacquer, can definitely make this perishable art shine with brilliance.
It was also at this time that Chen Wenzhe realized that the collection of lacquerware seemed to be a huge category, and there were quite a few people who liked this kind of collection.
Since someone likes it, it becomes easy for him to collect lacquerware.
How slow is it to collect each piece one by one? For someone like Chen Wenzhe, it will naturally cost money.
The interior is painted white, silent and dignified;
The mandarin duck box unearthed from the tomb of Zenghou Yi in Suizhou and the large open-carved screen made of snakes, clams, birds and animals unearthed from the Chu tomb in Jiangling can all be regarded as representative works of that period.
Although the history of the Qin Dynasty is long, the lacquerware of the Qin Dynasty played a role in the development of lacquerware from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Han Dynasty.
And this also means that if the number of lacquerware passed down to previous lives is large.
The material of lacquerware is mainly wood, and there are also bamboo, rattan, leather, paper, paper, metal, ceramics, etc.
The Warring States Period was the first prosperous period for your country's lacquerware craftsmanship.
When Chen Wenzhe took a look, he found that the bowl was really complicated. It had a longer history than the later horse bowl with long handle.
It cannot be said that lacquerware with strong Chinese cultural characteristics is a unique flower in the Chinese art garden.
The earliest extant lacquerware is not the red lacquer wooden bowl unearthed from the Hemudu site in Yuyao mentioned later. It has a history of less than 7,000 years.
Therefore, someone then provided him with detailed information and let him know where he could buy a large amount of lacquerware at one time.
Western Han lacquerware rarely has inscriptions detailing the names of officials and craftsmen.
Newer techniques include filling gold with needle marks, piling up paint with thick substances to create patterns, etc.
The value of lacquer ware lies in the fact that natural lacquer forms a tough paint film on the surface of the carcass, which is moisture-resistant, anti-corrosive, durable, and can be decorated with exquisite patterns, so it is popular.
The number of lacquerware unearthed during the Eastern Han, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties is very rare compared to later generations, which has nothing to do with changes in burial customs.
Compared with the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, lacquerware production in the Qin Dynasty was more regular and exquisite, with richer shapes and varieties.
The ear cup is a kind of eating utensil that appeared at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period.
So without a wooden bowl, Chen Wenzhe saw a series of top-quality lacquerware before.
In particular, the top of the vessel is inlaid with metal flowers and leaves, agate or glass beads are used as buttons, and the mouth and body of the vessel are inlaid with gold or silver buckles and hoops.
Of course, the price of those lacquerware is absolutely ridiculous. Why do people bring so few bad things to sell them at a bad price?
Among the lacquer-painted and carved wood vessels found in the royal tombs of the Shang Dynasty in Houjiazhuang, Anyang, there are no clam shells, clam bubbles, jade and other inlays.
The lacquerware patterns of the Qin Dynasty are red and white, flying and flowing, and the painting techniques are skillful and smooth, giving people a strong visual impact and making people marvel at the rich and bold imagination of the ancestors.
The manufacture of lacquerware in the Neolithic Age was in the exploratory stage and mainly produced daily necessities.
The ancient lacquerware craftsmanship of your country is a process of continuous development and regression, and striving for excellence.
Small artifacts appeared, such as dishes with a diameter of more than 70 cm, clocks with a height of nearly 60 cm, etc.
As mentioned later, ancient ancestors have a long history of using natural lacquer.
Gold or silver foil is used to embed and engraved figures of figures, gods, monsters, birds and beasts, and painted clouds, rocks, etc. are used as backgrounds, which is unprecedented.
Your country has a long history of producing lacquerware. After 2000, lacquerware was no longer used in your country.
Woodenware that is a thousand years old must have been painted without small utensils. How can it be passed down to this day?
The main colors of the lacquer are red and white, and its characteristic is that "the inside is painted with vermilion and the inside is dyed with ink."
At the Panlongcheng site in Huangpi in the middle of the Shang Dynasty, there were no traces of carved wooden coffins on one side and painted with vermilion on the other.
The paint colors are mainly red and white, and the painting techniques are only painted and inlaid.
The contrast between red and white brings out the elegance and richness of lacquerware, showing a strong decorative effect, and the utensils have a steady and dignified beauty.
After all, it is lacquerware, so it is difficult to preserve it.
It can be seen that the lacquer craftsmanship of the Shang Dynasty has reached a very low level.
But no matter how precious it is, because your country has a small land area and has been circulated for a long time, there are definitely many works that have survived to this day.
The Warring States Chu painted scroll-patterned square-ear cup is one of the classics.
For example, the box contains 6 stacked items, 1 ear cup with a reverse button, a thin single-layer or double-layered lacquer box, 5 items inside, 7 or less items in a large box of the same size and shape, etc.
Among the lacquerware fragments unearthed from the Taixi site in Beihe City, there are no carved, painted and turquoise inlays.
Lacquer ware is famous for its craftsmanship of "hundreds of thousands of cuts and one ounce of lacquer". The production requires hundreds of processes, which is cumbersome and difficult to preserve. Therefore, it is precious.
The lacquer craftsmanship of the Western Han Dynasty basically inherited the later styles, but there were no new developments. The production scale was smaller and the production areas were more widely distributed.
For example, I was very surprised by the wooden bowl that Chen Wenzhe saw.
This ear cup is decorated with a deformed bird's head pattern, which is the most distinctive decorative pattern in lacquerware of the Warring States Period.
The painted dragons and snakes unearthed from the Guan Chu tomb in Changtai, Xinyang, as well as the hunting and dancing harps.
That wooden bowl is the earliest lacquerware in existence, and it has a history of less than 7,000 years.
The one that Xin Zhenyou is seeing now should have a shorter history than this one.
Lacquerware production has a long history and has achieved brilliant artistic achievements.
The inside of the vessel is painted with vermilion, which is bright, slow and cold;
The variety and quantity of utensils increased slightly, but there were no innovations in the methods of fetal bones, shapes and decoration techniques.
At the same time, it can skillfully assemble several large pieces into one device.
Of course, many of these lacquerware must be high-quality products, because those that are too inferior, or are modern imitations that are fake at first glance, will never reach Chen Wenzhe's side.
By the Qin Dynasty, lacquerware manufacturing had become an important handicraft industry.
During the Eight Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, on the basis of inheriting the traditions of the Han Dynasty, the use of lacquerware began to become less diverse, and the craftsmanship and decoration techniques became more detailed and in-depth.
Archaeological data show that in 1977, a red lacquer wooden bowl was unearthed at the Hemudu site in Yuyao, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
As long as it is deliberately placed in a place that is not suitable for environmental use, or is flooded or burned, there are still some minor problems in the preservation of lacquerware.
I hate lacquerware, so naturally no one fell in love with me, so I brought a lacquerware bowl.