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The rise of the Ming and Qing furniture, from the situation in the country prosperous city gardens and houses building, court aristocrats, wealthy businessmen and cultural celebrities and appreciation and collection. Zheng He, brought back from Southeast Asia in a large number of pear, sandalwood and other high wood, wood imports also contributed to the development of the Ming Dynasty cabinetry.

All hand-made furniture, thanks to sophisticated tools, a little polish.

All parts from prototype to finished product, are they hand-line from the master was born.

Handcrafted patterns include machine operation can not match the smooth and delicate.

Timber in accordance with its own different characteristics, different production processes.

Basic look out, you need polished before they can be more moist.

Modulation of the paint film with their own color to the furniture, natural pollution-free.

Various parts of grinding all have differences in detail.

Ming period, the refined furniture prolific in Suzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing, Huizhou, Ningbo, Fujian, Yangzhou, Shanxi and other places. Among them, Suzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing''s most famous furniture production. Soviet-style furniture of Ming furniture originated, to some extent representative of the peak of Ming furniture. Generous style, concise, smooth and elegant, the proportion of appropriate experts in timber. Regular use of large equipment package Xiang approach Zamu bone, thin hardwood laminates, while the small pieces of scrap stitching is a test of superior technology; Kyoto-style furniture is the palace workshops in Beijing, made furniture, to red sandalwood, yellow pear and mahogany and other hardwood furniture, mainly. Decorated, at the use of materials, to the Qianlong left many treasures handed down. Fine furniture, Ming and Qing dynasties survive in the world now is not more than 10,000 total, although the prices are quite high, but still has room for the appreciation is the most precious, almost no investment risk. Focus on doing the homework material

Chinese classical furniture manufacturer to give room quiet, restrained atmosphere.

Ming and Qing furniture, materials, from the high degree of view, usually arranged in: a yellow (pear), two black (red sandalwood), three red (old redwood, chicken wing wood, Mesua ferrea, rosewood, etc.), four white ( Phoebe, beech, camphor, pine, etc.). Furniture more years old, the less amount of surviving, but also the more precious. The most appreciation potential of the furniture, one of the Ming dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, pointing at the author produced under the Ming furniture, wood is generally pear; the other is the three generations of the Qing emperor Kangxi personally supervised, guided by the best court artists craftsmen produced in the Forbidden City palace furniture, wood is usually red sandalwood.

Ming Dynasty furniture, color and sound modeling Gorgeous win, these two factors constitute the Ming Dynasty furniture, elegant and harmonious style features.

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The history of Chinese Ming and Qing Furniture

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