Yellow Rosewood Openwork Backrest Armchair

Yellow Rosewood Openwork Backrest Armchair adopts straight line as main line, but the arc shape of chair circle contrasts and echoes with straight line of chair legs, horizontal support and chair surface, which eliminates flfl at and dull contents, and fully embodies the characteristics of the Ming-style furniture which applies a large number of curved lines in the modeling. This is the representative work of the Mingstyle furniture. In addition, straight chair surface and curved armrest also present the contrast for steadiness and flfl ow. As for this armchair, greatly-bending force components and slightly-bending decoration plates, designs and line angles are all upright, simple, rounded and smooth, which help people enjoy the beauty.

Chair circle is composed of three sections of wood tenon, which is in the flfl at shape in the rounded outline. Backboard sees pot-shaped opening, with openwork unicorn. Unicorn opens mouth and extends tongue, and its mane erectly stands with flying flame. The upper end of backboard sees wood stripes on both sides, on which curly grass pattern is carved to strengthen the decorative effect.

The Ming-style round-backed armchair

“Round-backed armchair” is named after the approximate rounded backrest and handrail. It was found in the Five Dynasties and the Northern S o n g D y n a s t y, w h i c h b e c a m e prevalent in the Ming Dynasty. The Ming-style round-backed armchair links backrest and armrest together to make them follow the posture. It is not only beautiful with flfl uent curves, but also provides the support for elbow of people sitting on the chair. The arms under the axilla can also enjoy support so that people can feel very comfortable.

The Ming-style furniture

The Ming-style furniture refers to the furniture with specififi c style, which was made from the Ming Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty. The Ming-style furniture is very particular about the choice and processing of materials, which mainly adopts not only red sandalwood, mahogany, yellow rosewood, catalpa, lignumvitae and other hardwood, but also nanmu, camphor, elm, walnut and other miscellaneous hardwood. These solid hardwood materials boast solid texture, elasticity, clear texture, calm color and fragrance. In terms of structure, the Ming-style furniture makes widespread use of tenon joint process to show concise and crisp structure. Its shape is very particular about line beauty, without sophisticated decoration and ostentation, which stresses the natural beauty of natural materials. The Ming-style furniture demonstrates simple, rustic, crisp and elegant artistic style, which enjoyed supremacy in the ancient Chinese furniture history.

Tenon Joint

Tenon joint is an ingenious way in China’s traditional wooden craft, which takes advantage of the yin and yang connection between components to make them linked together. Tenon joint has many forms, as shown in the fifi gure, “wedge nail tenon” basically combines two tenons to assemble together in the shape of palm, but the ends of two tenons extend small tips. When small tips enter into the groove, two tenons stick together and they can not move up or down. Since then, a square hole is chiseled in the middle of connection part, and a wedge nail with square cross-section, thick head and thin tail comes through so the two tenons cannot be pulled in the left and right directions. Two arc-shaped bend materials are closely connected in one. The Ming-style furniture sees no nail and glue, but adopts tenon joint to present a variety of different styles, which is very scientifific.

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