The Imperial Palace of Shenyang was built in 1625 as a palace hall built and used by Nurhaci and Emperor Taiji, and also an important place for the four emperors of Kangxi, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang to visit the ancestors and collect royal treasures after entering the customs. The arrival of the four emperors of Kang, Qian, Jia, and Dao in the east and a large number of members of the imperial family made the Shengjing Imperial Palace always maintain its main function as an imperial palace; the construction of the Qianlong Emperor and the prosperity of the imperial court have expanded and improved the scale of the palace here, showing an unprecedented prosperity. The Qing Dynasty court furnishings introduced in this article are all original collections of the Qing Palace and the royal palace, which are produced by the Inner Court Manufacturing Office or workshops in Suzhou, Nanjing and other places, and some of them are from the gifts and offerings of social classes such as gentry and missionaries.
Copper tire filigree enamel. Length 35.4, body width 4, neck length 9, width 11, thickness 8 cm. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor and the princes and nobles played with and furnished things. This piece is made of filigree enamel three-inlay type, Ruyi head is wider, made of Ganoderma lucidum shape, the handle is slightly curved. The whole body is made of blue enamel glaze as the ground, using filigree enamel process, the front is full of red bats and blue and white cloud patterns, the back is full of various colors of treasure phase patterns, ruyi edges and three inlays are gilded copper edges as guard, and there are back patterns; Ruyi's head is large ruyi shaped, decorated with 6 red bats and cloud patterns, the center is inlaid with a ruyi-shaped gilded copper gilded shield, the center of the card crosses a dragon pattern; the rectangular support in the middle of the handle is inlaid with a gilded copper gilded variant dragon pattern, and the end of the handle is slightly smaller. The center is inlaid with a ruyi-shaped gilt jade bi and a dragon pattern. This piece is elegantly made and is a plaything in the court of the Qing Dynasty.
Qing Ming Huangjiang silk color embroidered lotus bat pattern seat
The mat is composed of three parts: backrest, cushion and greeting, made according to the size of the throne, filled with cotton or cordyceps, placed on the seat, which is both an ornament and a beautiful and comfortable, and is an indispensable daily necessity for royal life. This set of cushions is sewn from Ming Huangjiang silk, embroidered with swastikas, and decorated with auspicious ornaments such as passionflower and bat, symbolizing royal wealth and fury. The overall decoration of the paving is elaborate, and it is embroidered in multiple layers, reflecting the superb embroidery.
Qingbai jade relief landscape square box
The square box is of white jade texture, and the jade occasionally has a light earthy yellow. The lid of the box is bas-relief carved landscape and figure patterns, and its composition is completely imitated in the traditional painting, the distant scenery of the mountains is undulating, the river is vast; the close-up view is surrounded by streams, the water is near the stream, a person sits in the shade of the slope bank, a child carries a piano; a boat in the water flows, one person sits upright, one person is at the helm, the artistic conception is long; the side of the box lid and the outside of the box are embossed landscape patterns; the bottom of the box is attached to a double-layer mahogany base.
Clear silk enamel glass seat lamp
This lamp is a lighting apparatus and ornament in the palace in the middle of the Qing Dynasty. The seat lamp can be divided into upper and lower parts, the upper part is a cylindrical glass lampshade, the top and bottom of the hood are hollowed out gilded lotus patterns, the shoulders of the cover are embossed gilded cloud patterns, and the glass cover is divided into four combinations by four gilded cloud columns, each of which is divided into four seasons of flowers, birds, and mountain stone patterns. The base is in the shape of a pedestal, consisting of a circular sumire, a hollow column, a circular pedestal and a square base, with a combination of engraving, gilding and filigree enamel craftsmanship, the bottom square base is blue and decorated with tangled floral patterns, and on one side is placed a drawer that can be switched, cleverly designed, novel and unique, a novelty in court supplies.
Clear silk enamel elephant ear three-legged lid furnace
This furnace is a palace decoration and practical utensil of the Qianlong period, made of copper tire filigree enamel, usually placed on the two sides of the hall to burn incense and beautify the hall. The top of the lid of this furnace is an elephant treasure bottle hollow peach-shaped round button, which means "taiping has an elephant"; the furnace body is round kettle-shaped, and the mouth is engraved with a pattern, and the lower part is a ruyi head pattern, the abdomen is light blue glaze, decorated with various colors of tangled flowers, and the middle is a large treasure phase pattern; the two sides of the furnace body are the elephant head furnace ears, the bottom of the furnace is three elephant feet, and the elephant foot head is inlaid with red and green material stone.
White glass pastel mirror cover powder box
In the thirty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, a glass factory was set up in the inner court, and the manufacture of glassware for the imperial court began. During the Qianlong period, the level of glass manufacturing in the palace reached its peak. This is the powder box used by the concubines of the Qing Palace to dress. The powder box is made of glass and is decorated with copper at the bottom edge of the mouth. The upper lid is a mercury convex mirror, inlaid with a toothed copper mouth and copper ornament along the mouth of the box. The box is small in the shape of a small jar, made of frosted glass, which is milky white, and there is a circle of pastel gold flowers and leaf patterns on the outer wall of the box. The bottom edge of the box is inlaid with copper ornamentation and has the head of the beast and three legs. This product is the original collection of the Qing Palace.
Article Source: The Collector
202201 issue of "Ruijing——
From the cultural relics of the Imperial Palace in Shenyang to see the emperor's court furnishings
Author: Luan Ye
Editor-in-Charge: Qin Jia