Screw lacquerware refers to the best part of the natural color and beautiful luster of various shells, peeled or ground in layers, and embedded in the surface of the lacquerware as a decoration according to the needs of the design pattern. The most common practice of screw lacquerware is flat off, that is, the screw is embedded in the monochrome paint surface, painted repeatedly, covered with tungsten sheets, and then polished, so that the pattern and paint are integrated, smooth as a mirror. The inlaid screw is more in black paint, because the multicolored light emitted by the screw can show more effect on the black primer.
The inlaid screws are thick and thin, so there is a thick screw and a thin screw. Early Chinese screw lacquerware, according to archaeological findings, are thick tungsten inlays. Ming Dynasty Huang Cheng's "Records of The Ornaments of The Emperor" (髹 Ornaments). Yang Ming made a note in the "Screw Tungsten": "The shell pieces are thick in the past, and now they are getting thinner and thinner." Thick screw tungsten due to the thick shell piece, hardness, also known as "hard screw tungsten", thick screw tungsten thickness is generally between 0.5 and 2 mm, "there are first embedded, boundary Guo, Li, 皴 are scratched" mainly refers to the fine carving on the thick screw tin, thin screw, because the cut is as thin as paper, also known as "soft screw tungsten", the thickness of the screw tungsten is generally thinner than 0.5 mm. "The Jewelry": "Screw ... All kinds of text pictures, dots, wipes, hooks, strips, always fine and dense and picturesque. It is also divided into shell colors, and those who are embellished with color, the brilliance can be appreciated" refers to the effect of the thin screw inlay.
▌ Black lacquer inlaid screw character picture box Zhejiang Provincial Museum collection
Black lacquered screw-inlaid courtyard figure round box, diameter 25.5, height 14.4 cm. Mother-daughter mouth, wooden tire, with looped feet, black lacquer inlaid with screw decoration, black paint on the inside. The lid of the box is embedded with a small view of the garden. The wall of the device with the mouth of the mother and son buckles, and the upper and lower parts are all stripes, which correspond to each other one by one. Circle foot inlaid spherical sleeve hexagonal brocade pattern. The black paint at the bottom of the box and the "Yi" character of Zhu Shu fit with the scene of Yi Ran's self-sufficiency. Observe the screws embedded in the box, large petals, etc., are thick screws, and the edges are polished, showing multicolored light. The brocade is made of very small spiral lines, which is time-consuming and time-consuming. This black lacquer inlaid screw figure picture box is a cultural relic from the Yuan to the early Ming Dynasty, and is now in the collection of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum.
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