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Chapter 1272 The Top Luxury
In 1772, a pair of golden phoenix hairpins made by the Ming Dynasty Silver Works Bureau were unearthed from the tomb of the Hubin couple in Mingyizhu, Nancheng.

This phoenix hairpin is 10 centimeters high, 5 centimeters high at the pin, and weighs 12.5 taels and 2 qian.

Gold phoenix hairpins are wrapped with money and gold pieces of varying thickness.

The toes of the golden phoenix, a cloud that it grasps strongly, are also woven with gold threads of varying thickness.

The hairpin feet protruding from the clouds are vivid in shape and slender and beautiful in technique, which shows the level of gold and silver craftsmanship in the early Ming Dynasty.

During this period, a large number of top craftsmen emerged.

Not to mention anything else, let's talk about Lu Zigang, the master jade cutter, Chen Wenzhe is very familiar with it.

Most of Chen Wenzhe's carving skills are learned from this master, or is it a great master?
Now Chen Wenzhe knows that Lu Zigang is not only good at carving, he is also a master of mosaic.

According to historical records, Lu Zigang, a master of jade carving and inlaying in the Ming Dynasty, made many achievements in filigree inlaying.

Lu Zigang was born in a famous family. Due to the decline of his family, he came to Hengshan, Suzhou City since he was a child. The area around Xinguo Yujia Village, Hengtang Town, used to be the center of jade carving in those days.

He learned how to carve jade in this place, and established himself after he completed his mastership in the eighteenth year of Jiajing (1539).

Later, he moved his workshop to the increasingly prosperous Zhuanzhu Lane in Changmen.

According to the records of Mudu Town and the Palace Museum, the Zigang Workshop founded by Lu Zigang involves a lot of craftsmanship.

"Mudu Town Records" records: "In addition to jade, its carvings include bamboo, wood, stone, and even filigree inlays, all of which are accomplished."

The Palace Museum's publication "The Forbidden City" records: "Lu Zigang is good at round carving, openwork carving, Yin carving, inlaid with gold and silver threads, and inlaid with precious stones."

To sum up, Lu's Zigang workshop was already a jewelry workshop with a wide variety of products in those days.

Chen Wenzhe had seen these when he got the Zigang plaque, but the main goal of his study at that time was carving, not inlaying.

Now it is different, he needs to use mosaic technology.

Besides, he has no shortage of gems and gold in his hands now. With so many raw materials, he can make some jewelry at will.

Of course, before doing it, the craftsmanship of the Qing Dynasty court building office also needs to be studied carefully.

After all, no matter which era it is, it is constantly improving.

The technology of the Ming Dynasty was very powerful, but the real Yanjing Bajue was formed in the Qing Dynasty.

All of this must be said of the Qing Palace's Manufacturing Office, which is really the top handicraft manufacturing base.

Chen Wenzhe really didn't expect that if he wanted to make cloisonne this time, he could also learn the Eight Wonders of Yanjing.

And through Yanjing Bajue, Chen Wenzhe actually saw the handicraft inheritance of the entire Qing Palace Manufacturing Office.

There are too many crafts here.

If he understands all the research, then he can directly establish one, the world's most extravagant, luxury goods manufacturing base.

If it can really be built and all the craftsmanship he has acquired can be passed on, then all foreign luxury brands can die in the future.

You know, the Qing Palace Building Office is dedicated to serving the royal family.

So after learning, what can he do?
It can be said that it involves all aspects of life.

In other words, as long as it can be used in life, it can be made, and it can be made into the top luxury!

The things made by the Qing Palace Office, no matter what ordinary things they are, are truly top-notch luxury goods, or simply the top-notch works of art.

Every work made here can last forever and become a real rare antique.

And all of this is inseparable from the Qing Palace Building Office.

During the Kangxi period, the Palace of Mental Cultivation established a manufacturing office.

The Manufacturing Office is affiliated to the Qing Palace House of Internal Affairs, and it is a specialized agency responsible for manufacturing royal articles.

The "Zaoban Office" has "silver work", which is divided into ten types of work such as silver, alchemy, silk, and chisel, with hundreds of people, specializing in gold and silver jewelry, utensils, etc.

Outstanding varieties include golden chime bells, which are engraved with embossed cloud and dragon patterns and names such as "Yellow Bell" and "Lupin";

The seven-level golden pagoda is made of gold silk and inlaid with red, blue and green gemstones, carved with fine and detailed patterns, which are more beautiful than beautiful.

There are also gold crowns, etc., which are made of gold threaded and woven jewelry.

The manufacturing office serving the imperial family gathered the most skilled craftsmen from all over the country.

Coupled with the metal treasures tributed by the local government, the filigree inlay, which has inherited the excellent skills of the Ming Dynasty, has further prospered.

The ruling class of the Qing Dynasty respected Tibetan Buddhism, and the subjects of the utensils were broader than those of the Ming Dynasty, and the religious color was obviously strong.

During this time period, the Jin Ou Yonggu Cup, the special wine cup that Qianlong held when he held the opening ceremony on New Year's Day every year, is the most representative.

If we talk about filigree and dot emerald craftsmanship, then it is represented by the golden silk dot emerald ruyi-shaped hairpin in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

During the Qing Dynasty, the gold wire inlay industry had a finer division of labor and gradually moved towards specialized production.

The whole industry is divided into 11 majors, including practical work, inlaying, chisel making, saving work, burning blue, emerald emerald, gold plating, plating, wire drawing and beading.

Among them, solid setting and saving work are the main parts of the industry.

In these two parts, there are independent products and complete production processes.

The remaining industries are all processing types, but the cooperation relationship is very close.

The gold and silver crafts and styles in the court of the Qing Dynasty are different from those of the Ming Dynasty. They are more profound, mainly chiseled and inlaid.

For example, the "Golden Branches and Jade Leaves" large bonsai displayed in the Jewelry Museum of the Palace Museum is a bonsai made of precious stones.

Like this kind of bonsai, the Qing Palace Manufacturing Office made a lot of them back then.

It can be said that most of the palace treasures of the Qing Dynasty collected by the Palace Museum were made by order of the building office, the institution in charge of construction in the Forbidden City.

Others are tributes from local officials during New Year celebrations.

Most of these treasures are made of precious materials such as gold, silver, jade, emerald, pearls, and various gemstones, and are designed and manufactured by famous craftsmen from all over the world!
The entire production process, exhausted ingenuity, no expense spared!

Therefore, it takes years and months to achieve success!

The workmanship shape of this group of "golden branches and jade leaves" is like a bonsai, full of palace characteristics!

The blooming prosperity is set against the green leaves as the scenery, and the cloisonné pot with auspicious and elegant patterns is used as the bottom. After careful design, polishing, carving, and connection and combination by craftsmen, a pot is undefeated in four seasons and evergreen for a hundred years. beautiful scenery and flowers.

In the Qing Palace, there is not only one luxury like this, but a large number.

There are many representatives among them, such as the large hanging screen of "Diancui Flower and Bird", and the silver burnt blue "Crane and Deer in the Same Spring" and so on.

These art forms are innovative, and the craft production combines techniques such as solid chisel, smelting, inlaying, emerald emerald, and burning blue.

Even gold and silver crafts and jade carving crafts are combined with each other and can be used freely.

So far, my country's gold and silver crafts have developed to a very high level.

After that, the national strength of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties weakened, and the craftsmanship began to decline.

(End of this chapter)