A treasure every day, today I will introduce to you the point of the begonia pattern head flower, for the Qing Dynasty cultural relics, 22 cm horizontally, 20 cm long. The head flower is made of silver gold-plated material as the base support, which is inlaid with emerald, and made of jade into a begonia flower decoration. This piece of emerald is made of emerald blue bird feathers, and the begonia flowers made of white jade are set off, elegant and generous, and should be a favorite headdress of the Qing Dynasty court concubine. It is now in the collection of the Palace Museum.
Diancui is a traditional gold and silver jewelry making process that decorates the surface of gold, silver, copper, paper or gilt metal bottom plate, and is an auxiliary type of jewelry production, which plays the role of embellishment and beautification of gold and silver jewelry. "Emerald" is the feather of the kingfisher, and the process of dotting the emerald is to make a base with different patterns of gold or gilded metal, and then carefully inlay the bright blue feathers on the back of the kingfisher on the seat to make various jewelry utensils.
The origin of "Cui Yu" as decoration has been a long time, the earliest can be traced back to the "Han Feizi Foreign Reserve", the Chu people for their pearls ** wooden box dressed, the surface of the wooden box is "decorated with pearls and jade, decorated with roses, and compiled with feather cui";The Diancui craft has existed since the Han Dynasty and reached its peak in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. When you look at the real thing, you can still see a trace of feather lines on the jewelry, which is very exquisite. Since the development of the Diancui process, it has changed to use goose feathers, ribbons and other materials to replace kingfisher feathers to make Diancui jewelry.
The dotted emerald process is classified according to the part of the kingfisher feather used, which can be divided into hard emerald and soft emerald. Hard emerald is the emerald feathers on the wings of the kingfisher, and because there are almost only eight hairs on the wings of each kingfisher, it is also called "eight big strips";The tail feathers are called "tail strips". The texture is pronounced and the luster is strong. The soft emerald refers to the finer feathers on the back of the kingfisher, and only one tip of a feather can be used, so the soft emerald generally feels more delicate in texture. The feathers of the dotted emerald are made of emerald blue and snow blue kingfisher feathers. Knowledge explosion training camp