After this treasure was unearthed, it was highly valued by the National Cultural Relics Group and then collected in Shandong Museum, becoming one of the top ten treasures and three national treasures of Shandong Museum.
Un-yong Kim pattern on the top box and priceless red paint are reflected in three aspects:
First of all, the manufacturing process promotes the development of modern gold medal technology.
Gold immersion technique is a very important performance technique in lacquer painting, but it disappeared in the war a hundred years ago. Modern artists have been looking for physical works of this technology for many years, but they have not found it. The appearance of this box just fills the gap in this technology. This box is the work of Zhu Ming, and its pattern and bronzing technology were excellent in Ming Dynasty.
Second, the historical puzzle was solved, and there was already a reduced gold and iron part in the early Ming Dynasty.
According to historical records, the technology of restoring gold and iron pieces existed in the Yuan Dynasty, and developed on this basis in the Ming Dynasty, with more exquisite skills. However, experts are not completely sure whether there really were reduced gold and iron parts in Yuan Dynasty, and the appearance of top box Jinlong red paint not only solved all technical problems, but also proved that the reduced gold and iron parts had reached a high level in the early Ming Dynasty.
Thirdly, it fills the blank of furniture unearthed in Ming Dynasty in China archaeology.
As furniture in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of box shows the noble status of princes and nobles in the early Ming Dynasty. There is no Jerry-building, flashy situation in production, it is a practical furniture, and there is no lack of weight. Unearthed with the box are four stone-faced wooden tables, 1 red-painted oblique-headed tables, and four red-painted rectangular tables. * * * fills the blank of furniture burial in China.
Let's appreciate the artistic value of this national treasure ~ ~ ~
The top box of red lacquer wood tire with golden dragon pattern is 6 1.5cm high, 58.5cm wide and 1cm thick. There are three floors in the box, with a bucket in the middle and a drawer below. There are clothes, crowns, robes, boots and other funerary objects in the drawer.
The top and four sides of the box are decorated with dragon patterns, and the edge of the box is honeysuckle patterns. In ancient times, the dragon pattern was the embodiment of the gods and emperors, which could call the wind and rain and drive the clouds and fog, thus showing the supreme authority and majesty of the royal family.
Metal fittings, such as loose leaves, nose rings, keys, etc. The box body is made of reduced gold and iron and decorated with Yunlong pattern. The so-called process of reducing gold is to chisel out Wen Yin and hammer out gold wire in iron, so as to create a gorgeous aesthetic feeling, wealth and luxury of gold and iron.
Now let's look at the gilding process: the whole box is painted with red paint, the box is painted with black paint and the surface is plated with gold. The so-called gold coating technique is to carve various patterns on moderately dry vermicelli with a hook knife, then stick gold on the low-lying patterns, and then stick gold foil inside to form dazzling gold patterns.
But the skill of scraping gold needs to be skilled, and the craftsman is fast and strong. This is a model of gold scraping technology in the early Ming Dynasty. It is said that scraping gold was popular in the Yuan Dynasty. The process of reducing gold and iron in this box was developed from reducing gold in Yuan Dynasty. What we see today is the earliest reduction of gold and iron in the Ming Dynasty.
The top box has Un-yong Kim pattern and red paint, which is distinguished from Un-yong Kim pattern, hence the name.
In ancient times, the patterns of gold and dragons were the patents of princes and nobles, and ordinary people, no matter how rich, could not decorate boxes with these two techniques, which showed that such boxes could only be made by royal nobles.
Go back to the function of the box.
Ancient boxes are no different from our modern boxes. Are used to store clothes. There was also a saying of carriage in ancient times. As a tool for holding and distributing clothes, boxes have a history of thousands of years in China, and the earliest boxes in China can be traced back to the Warring States Period.
After the founding of New China, archaeologists unearthed a suitcase in the tomb of the Warring States Period in Xinyang, Henan. Its shape is roughly the same as that of the top box, except that the cover is arc-shaped, with patterns such as hibiscus, sun, beasts, snakes and figures painted on it. The box cover has the words "purple brocade clothes", and there are four handles on the side of the box for people to carry and bind.
So there was a prototype of the box in the Warring States period, and in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was almost the same as our box today. In the thousand years after Sui and Tang Dynasties, the style of boxes has not changed, and they are all cuboids or cubes, and the four corners are also inlaid with iron sheets to increase the durability of boxes.
The top box with golden Yunlong pattern and vermicelli paint has reached the ultimate technological level. I don't know why, seeing such a box, I feel that the smoke of the times is getting closer and closer to us, so grounded and very real. what do you think?
(The pictures in the article are from the Internet, if there is any intrusion)