Research On Lacquer Furniture In Court From Kangxi To Qianlong Period

For a long time,the research focus of our furniture mainly focuses on the so-called "Ming furniture",and lacquer furniture few people care about.From the perspective of cultural relics research,compared with hardwood furniture represented by"ming-style furniture",lacquer-decorated furniture has the characteristics of more complex technology,larger change range of ornamentation,and faster updating speed of ornamentation.Therefore,the research on lacquer furniture is not only helpful to sort out the development of Ming and Qing dynasty furniture,but also can provide some reference for the dating and staging of hardwood furniture.Lacquer furniture has always been the mainstream of China’s traditional furniture.The lacquer furniture that palace makes is representing our country lacquer furniture to make highest level.The period from Kangxi to Qianlong,as the last peak of the development history of lacquer furniture,is of great importance to furniture research in China.Regrettably,the academic research on this period of royal lacquer furniture has been focused on a few special or case studies,and rarely see the integrity of the study.This paper will mainly take the palace lacquered furniture stored in the Palace Museum as the research object,and refer to all kinds of palace lacquered furniture with clear sources and accurate age stored in major museums at home and abroad.And this paper tries to explore the production sources,classification of varieties,time stages,technological characteristics and discrimination of the imperial lacquer furniture from Kangxi period to Qianlong period through the research method of combining material objects with documents and images.Try to understand the development trajectory and general appearance of lacquer furniture made by the court in this period.The introduction mainly elaborates the significance of the study of palace lacquer furniture and the academic history related to it.And try from the lacquer craft,the Qing dynasty Kangxi to Qianlong period lacquer craft,the Qing dynasty furniture,and the Qing dynasty palace lacquer furniture special research combing predecessors research results.In addition,typological analysis,document analysis and image analysis are used as research methods.The first chapter mainly discusses the production of palace lacquer furniture from Kangxi to Qianlong.First of all,according to the existing archives carding palace lacquer furniture mainly for the neiwu government production,jiangnan region production and local government tribute.Next,the making mechanism of lacquer furniture is discussed concisely.Finally,the palace lacquer process is roughly classified.This chapter mainly describes the production source,production process and production technology of lacquer furniture in the court from Kangxi to Qianlong period.Lay a foundation for its classification in the next chapter.The second chapter combines the traditional furniture classification forms with the existing examples for classification.Mainly divided into chair class,table class,cabinet class and other classes,and according to the general standards of the Qing dynasty furniture induction.This chapter is not only a further summary on the basis of previous research,but also a reference to the object to put forward their own classification opinions.For example,seating and bedding are combined,and tables with different names are divided into different shapes.The third chapter:the palace lacquer furniture from Kangxi to Qianlong period was divided into Qing Shunzhi to the middle of Kangxi period,late Kangxi period to early Qianlong period,middle and late Qianlong period to early Jiaqing period.It also summarizes the general development of lacquer furniture in different periods and different development directions.At the same time,the objects of definite age are arranged to facilitate the study of their modeling and ornamentation.Chapter Ⅳ,taking the development direction of lacquer furniture in different periods as the breakthrough point,summarizes the process of foreign lacquer and carving lacquer.And put forward their own views on its definition,development track,and academic research controversy.In addition,the influence of the emperor’s own aesthetics and preferences on the palace lacquer furniture was also explored according to the archives.this chapter mainly explores the close relationship between the emperor and the production of lacquered furniture in the imperial court.Mainly from the individuality and the generality two aspects carry on the elaboration.The fifth chapter is to distinguish the fake of the court lacquer furniture from Kangxi to Qianlong period.On the one hand,through visiting the antique market,the author roughly understands the main producing areas and imitation characteristics of contemporary imitation furniture.On the other hand,the author puts forward some key points to identify or distinguish falsehoods based on physical objects and previous studies.Mainly from paint color,broken grain,modeling,decorative four aspects of the elaboration.Chapter six is the conclusion of the thesis,which summarizes the research results of this thesis.The research results are mainly the first classification of lacquer furniture in the court from kangxi to qianlong period.Combined with literature and images,it was roughly divided into stages.t the same time,it also points out the shortcomings of the paper,mainly reflected in the material objects and literature to be further supplemented,lacquer furniture modeling,decoration,structure to be further explored.References,picture sources and postscript are also attached at the end of this paper.