With the rise of ancient jewelry, the exquisite craftsmanship representing Chinese jewelry is always refreshing our cognition. If you want to know more, you need to constantly open the relics left by history. And the historical Ming Dynasty jewelry is a heyday in the history of China's gold and silver craft, if you are fortunate to go to museums around the world to see those exquisite Ming Dynasty court jewelry, you will definitely be carefully made by these materials to make excellent Ming Dynasty jewelry, have a deeper understanding.
The gold and silver jewelry of the Ming Dynasty is mainly based on the shape of the dragon and phoenix in auspicious and noble sense. In addition, plant patterns such as flower branches are also widely used in jewelry. The biggest change shown in gold and silver jewelry in the Ming Dynasty is that there is a fine difference in name due to the increase in types and styles, and those large and small hairpins have their own names according to the different positions of insertion, or ornaments, styles and even lengths.
Ming Dynasty hollow pattern wrapped beeswax gold comb
Although the baptism of the times is a little old, its superb craftsmanship still shines, and the hollow carving on it presents the beauty of the gold comb, and the floral patterns on it are vivid and layered.
Ming Dynasty crane deer with spring sachet
Sachet jewelry was known for its practicality, and in that era when perfumes were not available, a sachet jewelry replaced modern perfume. It gradually changed into a type of jewelry that remained popular until modern times. This is a typical hollowing process in the early Ming Dynasty, crane deer and spring, which also means "six contract spring".
Pavilion Golden Hairpin
In the jewelry of the Ming Dynasty, a group of gold hairpins with the theme of the attic attracted the attention of everyone. This is a set of hairpins with pavilion-themed patterns unearthed in the coffin of Zhu Houye, the king of Yizhuang in the Ming Dynasty, and this meticulous craftsmanship is breathtaking.
Looking closely at this pavilion golden hairpin can really be described as fine, and it is very clever in design. The head of the hairpin is an arc arrangement of three pavilions connected side by side, perfectly presenting the beauty of ancient Chinese architecture. The overall shape of these pavilions is based on the palace building of King Yizhuang. The ancient prince's mansion is really magnificent, and the owner of this set of jewelry, Princess Yizhuang, also wears her family's villa on her head.
This set of gold hairpin jewelry is definitely a realistic style, and the hairpin is composed of three side-by-side pavilions to form a "row of villas" group. These pavilions are divided into two floors, with heavy eaves and nine ridges, and the lower floor is three wide on the front and one on each side, with a step in the middle and a fence around the two sides. There are layers and layers, and there is a female statue in each room. The characters are carefully portrayed, so finely looked at with a magnifying glass to discover the mystery.
The trees of the whole pavilion and the temple are made of gold sheets and gold wire, and the trees of the temple are backed by filigree. The head is curved, the middle pavilion is the highest, the sides are slightly lower, and the outermost wings on the left and right have symmetrical reticulate clouds, inlaid with gold flowers. This set of pavilion-style golden hairpins uses ancient traditional crafts such as hammers, engravings, filigree, etc., and is made by hand, among which the gold hairpins woven with gold wire create a number of pavilions.
It has to be said that the hollowing technology is the production process, which is the focus of this set of gold hairpin jewelry. It is possible to use less raw materials to obtain a larger volume of jewelry in a limited space, thus achieving the effect of infinite transformation. Gold and silver jewelry using the hollow inlay process is also more delicate, eye-catching and decorative. This kind of production process perfectly shows the sense of space near and far.
The reason why these ingenious pavilion golden hairpins can shock people's hearts is the brainchild of countless skilled craftsmen, whose strange ideas, good materials, and exquisite workmanship are commendable. In this set of jewelry, there is also a craft worth mentioning - the thread process. It is this kind of craftsmanship that achieves exquisite and exquisite results.
Threading process
It is one of the common processes in the jewelry manufacturing technology in our country. Also known as "flower work" or "pattern", it can use metal jewelry to the most exquisite. Its production method is to first pull precious metals such as gold and silver into filaments, and then braid them into braids or various mesh tissues, and then weld the required shapes to the utensils, which is the threading process.
The handicraft industry of the Ming Dynasty was unprecedentedly prosperous and the production skills were exquisite. And these skilled craftsmen used their dexterous hands to create a magnificent world in jewelry, and after a hundred years, looking at these jewelry still feels that the aesthetic is very superior. It comes from the change of aesthetic tone, that is, the so-called "appreciation of elegance and customs", and even "from elegance to custom".
In fact, this kind of beauty full of real city fireworks embodied in a realistic way makes people feel that art is no longer the aesthetic of the clouds in the sky, but is close at hand, the audience is more, and it is easier to poke people's hearts.
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