What are the characteristics of Ming and Qing style furniture

1.The shape is strong and solemn.

The furniture of this period changed from the beautiful of the previous generation, to be rich and solemn. It stands out for the wide materials, the size is enlarged, and the body is abundant. The shape of the master chair of the Qing Dynasty can best reflect the characteristics of the Qing style.

It has an enlarged seat, a full back, and thick legs. The overall shape is as majestic and solemn as a throne. Other furniture such as tables, desks, stools, etc., can also see these characteristics, just look at the thick legs, you can know its characteristics.

2.Decoration seeks more, full, rich and gorgeous.

In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the characteristics of furniture were outstanding and became"Qing style furniture"Masterpieces. The decoration of Qing-style furniture seeks more, fullness, wealth and gorgeousness. A variety of materials are used together, and a variety of processes are combined.

Even on a piece of furniture, a variety of means and materials are used. Carving, inlay, and gold are taken at the same time, and snails, wood and stone are used together. At this time, the furniture, often decorated all over, without blanks, reached unprecedented richness and splendor.

However, it has to be said that the excessive pursuit of decoration often makes people feel breathless, and sometimes neglects the use of functions, which is inevitably suspected of fighting for wealth.

Ming and Qing style furniture - types of Ming and Qing style furniture.

Lamp Hanging Chair: It is named because it looks like a bamboo lamp hanging on the wall of the stove in the south to support the oil lamp. The lamp-hung chair was the most popular chair style in the Ming Dynasty. It can also be said to be a popular style since the Five Dynasties and the Song Dynasty.

Circle chair: Since the five dynasties "in the palace" and the Song people painted "Huichang Nine Old Pictures", not many people have seen it, and the circle chair began to rise again in the Ming Dynasty. The circle chair, commonly known as the Luo circle chair, is said to be the back of the brain and armrests, which is composed of a smooth curve.

This curve is sleek and smooth like a loop, and its back is very similar to the circle chair of the Yuan Dynasty, and a curve slides to the front to form two armrests. The two ends of the handrail are either rolled outwards or do not come out, but directly connect with the goose neck to become a whole.

Rose chair: the origin of the name, unknown. In the furniture of the Ming Dynasty, there are a lot of rose chairs that have been handed down.

The armrests, backrests and legs are mostly round stick shaped. The backrest has no side feet and stands upright on the seat surface. The part above the seat of the rose chair is unique and famous for its beauty.

On the backrest, most of them are decorated, or with coupon teeth, or with carved plates. On the seat surface, most of them are set up with a horizontal bar, and the middle of the horizontal barn is either a short old support, or a clip flower support, which breaks the dull feeling of the low backrest. The rose chair of the Ming Dynasty is mostly round-legged.

The square-legged round rose chair is mostly a work of the Qing Dynasty.