Chapter 1928: Former Collection of the Qing Palace, Noble and Gorgeous
In the eighth paragraph of "The Chapter of Filial Piety" written by Emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty, "Ma He's Supplement to the Book of Filial Piety," the case drawing shows that this type of furniture can be placed freely indoors and outdoors.
The round embroidered pier on which the six ladies sit beside the couch can represent the basic form of this type of pier in the Song Dynasty. It was also a common seat in the Five Dynasties and Song dynasties.
The real practice of sitting high with your feet down began in the Song Dynasty.
In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, purple flowers, brown flowers and other floral decorations also appeared.
Embroidered piers were popular in the Ming and Qing dynasties and were often used in informal occasions such as socializing with relatives and friends.
The embroidered pier is the best among stools. It is not only smart but also gorgeous.
The shape of the embroidered pier is various, round, with a large belly and a small top and bottom. Its shape is particularly similar to an ancient drum, so it is also called a embroidered pier.
"Embroidery" refers to the things covered on the pier.
Early embroidered piers were made of wood and cattail.
In the later period, porcelain carving paint, colored paint and other materials appeared.
From a technical point of view, there are red glaze, blue glaze, pastel, blue and white, enamel, three-color and other techniques;
Before the Tang Dynasty, the living style changed to sitting with one's feet down, and the furniture also became low-profile.
The side edges of the pier are decorated with cloud patterns and miscellaneous treasure patterns, and the waistband is decorated with a loop pattern.
In the Tang Dynasty, influenced by the Buddhist lotus platform, the seats for women and men in the Tang Dynasty were rarely made in the waist-drum style, which was called "base platform" or "quan hoof".
It involves beds, tables, chairs, stools, shelves, cabinets, screens, lacquer boxes, embroidered piers, etc. of a few materials, craftsmanship, and shapes.
The entire body of the embroidered pier is painted with white paint, and the base of the white paint is decorated with gold-painted patterns. Under the round pier, there are dragon and phoenix patterns.
In ancient times, the embroidery pier directly used the technique of stacking drums with wooden boards to make a waist-drum shape with small ends and a large middle.
The lotus flower pattern is the most eye-catching decorative pattern among blue and white porcelain.
The embroidered pier has an quaint interest, and it is even more diverse in the plastic arts. In addition to round shapes, the seat surface styles include begonia, plum blossom, melon edge, oval, etc.
The waist-drum-shaped sitting post has been used by women and men since the Warring States Period to incense and warm themselves.
The embroidered pier is in the shape of a drum, hollow and slightly raised.
The most obvious thing is that there are purple and gold drum nails on the bottom and top.
The central theme decoration on the inner wall shows seven dragons walking through a lotus pond.
This embroidery pier has an ingenious design, reasonable structure, and low artistic value.
There is no colorful dragon piercing the lotus pond pattern embroidery pier. The colorful dragon piercing the lotus pond pattern embroidery pier is an old collection of the Qing Palace.
The embroidered piers in the Ming Dynasty were relatively large, but smaller than those in the Qing Dynasty.
The embroidered pier with blue and white lotus branches and intertwining branches is a common type of porcelain for daily use at that time.
The material can be made of grass, rattan, mahogany, lacquered wood, porcelain, stone and other materials.
The diameter of the pier is similar to the diameter of the bottom. The body of the vessel is round and drum-shaped, without the seven-cloud head-shaped hollow decoration.
For example, in "A Dream of Red Mansions", there is no place where Qing Dynasty furniture is described, and there are still many, not close to a hundred places at most.
Especially the seven-week boxwood carvings on the embroidered pier give people a sense of elegance;
The embroidered pier is shaped like a waist drum, with similar surface and bottom diameters.
The embroidered pier, as a form of furniture for people to sit with their feet down, was born from this.
Furniture in the Qing Dynasty was rarely decorated with white lacquer and gold, which shows that this style was favored by people at that time.
There are two mysterious patterns carved on the lower and upper ends, and the relief on the inner side of Guanzhen symbolizes the nipples that fix the drum skin.
The embroidered piers of the Ming and Qing dynasties were only used indoors, and were often displayed in courtyards and rooms.
The wood for making embroidered piers is very particular, commonly used are rosewood, rosewood, mahogany, etc.
The pier is painted with a front, with a dragon leaping under a lotus pond.
There are not all kinds of embroidery piers, and naturally there are no lacquerware.
In terms of decorative techniques, there are also many methods such as inlays, carvings, plastic stacking, and window openings.
In order to make it easier to carry, some also have rings on both sides of the waist, or four crabapple-style holes in the middle.
This embroidered pier is a representative work of the Qianlong period. It is exquisitely made, using a few kinds of colorful decoration techniques, and has clear layers.
In the middle of the abdominal cavity are 6 groups of Begonia-style consecrations, connected to each other.
This pier is made of white lacquer and gold tracing. The white lacquer plain ground and the gold tracing decoration are in sharp contrast and set off each other, showing nobility and beauty in the darkness.
For example, the white lacquer embroidered pier with gold dragon and phoenix patterns, Qing Dynasty, low 43, face diameter 35.5, old collection of the Qing Palace.
The interior of the consecration is inlaid with rosewood wood, with a cloud pattern circle carved on the edge, and enamel pieces with bat patterns and treasure patterns in the middle.
The style of embroidery piers in the Ming Dynasty is the same. Some embroidery piers are entirely covered by embroidery baggage, and some only cover the lower half, so that the delicate structure inside cannot be seen.
The interior is plain and decorated with colorful blue and white flowers.
Both ends are carved with string patterns and nails to fix the drum skin, so it is also called "Huagu Pier".
Judging from the decoration, there are no animals, flowers, fruits and other minor themes.
For example, the colorful lotus pattern drum nail embroidery pier has a height of 52.9 and a surface diameter of 31.
Things like embroidered piers are naturally common in works describing some boudoirs.
After the Tang Dynasty, people especially sat on the floor, and furniture was rarely tall.
The small area of the lotus pattern on the body of the vessel is made of blue ground color and pastel, and the underglaze is filled with alum red, green, blue, white, purple, blue and white and other materials.
The surface of the pier is decorated with purple ground and pastels, and its center is decorated with sky blue ground.
It is a multi-embroidered pier with a string pattern on the lower and upper ends and carved drum nails, which is both simple and beautiful.
Because the blue and white color is fresh and elegant, the porcelain decorated with it became the main item for people's daily life, ornamental furnishings and study rooms at that time.
The walls of the pier are carved with Kui patterns and decorated with gold hooks. The decorations on the side edges of the circular base are the same as those on the side edges of the pier surface, echoing from top to bottom.
In addition, under the surface shape, many other forms of embroidery are derived.
There are raised drum nail patterns on the lower and upper sides, and back patterns are painted between the drum nails and the pier surface and between the bottom feet.
It was made during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. It has a height of 36.9, a face diameter of 24.0, and a bottom diameter of 24.0.
The carved patterns on the piers and circles are rough, such as crab apples, bamboo knots, or vines, which are lifelike and full of artistic appeal.
The decoration of the pier surface is also very particular. In addition to the lining of the board, it is also inlaid with colored stones, wood, marble, rattan, etc.
Rosewood inlaid with enamel embroidered pier, with a height of 52 cm and a face diameter of 28 cm.
Following the inheritance from the Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the embroidered piers had become a kind of seating device. The embroidered piers in the Song and Yuan Dynasties were especially smaller;
In addition, the use of porcelain piers in the Ming and Qing dynasties was extremely well known, and there were no products from Dehua, Liling, Jingzhen and other places.
Between the mysterious patterns, there are 6 grids with embossed curly grass pattern card flowers, each grid is inlaid with an enamel piece with Kui dragon pattern.
That makes the dignified and simple shape of the embroidered pier reveal a somewhat pretty mood.
Those seats were used in the palace and were covered with an embroidered handkerchief, so they were also called "embroidered piers";
The embroidered piers of the Qing Dynasty are thinner and more elegant than those of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, since it is a wooden product, you will know that there are no embroidery piers made of precious wood.
The embroidered piers of the Ming and Qing dynasties were made of wood, bamboo, rattan, carved lacquer, porcelain, etc.
Whether it is freehand or deformed painting, the paintings are all neat and delicate, the patterns are muddy, and the arrangement is clear, with the effect of patterned paintings.
The decoration on the ground floor with doucai is already gorgeous, but this vessel is also added with the rolling pastel process, making it even more luxurious.
For example, the red sandalwood inlaid with enamel embroidered piers is not only precious in wood, but also extraordinary in craftsmanship.