Crane top red
The spirit species flew to the top of the crane red, who cloud nine turns have immortal skills.
There is a crane top red in the antiques, which is only more than inches wide, red on the outside and yellow on the inside, the texture is like ivory and more delicate, mostly as a variety of small carvings, allowing it to be a rare treasure in antiques.
This object is not seen today, but the Chinese hundreds of years ago is not unfamiliar, the historical record is called "crane top", is actually a bird that is now endangered as the head part of the bird, this bird is now mostly called helmeted hornbill. The skin of the male bird's head and neck is bare and red. The middle and posterior part of the head is bright red in appearance, and the front and beak are yellow. The mother bird has a pale blue neck and a smaller head and a lighter color. It is the largest of all birds in the family Hornbillaceae , with males about 125 cm from the tip of their beak to the end of their tails , and two central slender tail feathers up to fifty cm long ; the female is slightly smaller and has no long tail feathers. It is found in the malay peninsula, Borneo and Sumatra in low-altitude forests below 1,500 meters, and its head is known as hornbill tusk. Birds of the hornbill family have a head, most of which are hollow, and this is the only one that is solid, so it can be used for carving. The so-called crane top is the head of its male bird.
Helmeted hornbills
Crane top red was commonly used to make belt accessories, hand beads, snuff bottles, or carvings for the powerful.
The hand beads cleverly left a red top, grinding such a string of beads, super scrap.
Jewelry
Carvings
Late clear snuff bottle
Buddha face charm
Buddha's head
Rhinoceros horned eagle
Crystal white jade condensed rhino horns, red embroidered tabby. Rhino horn is a valuable medicinal herb for detoxification and detoxification, and in ancient times, it was equally famous as Luminous Bi and Bright Moon Pearl. Nowadays, rhinoceros is an endangered and protected animal, rhino horn can no longer be used as a horn carving material, rhino horn carving as a strange flower in ancient Chinese art has become a masterpiece. At the beginning of the Han and Tang Dynasties, rhino horns paid tribute from outside the territory, and because of their rare and peculiar medicinal effects, their economic value became increasingly prominent. Most of the rhinoceros horn carvings that have survived in the world today are made in China's Ming and Qing dynasties. According to legend, rhino horn has the function of detoxifying and repelling evil spirits, just like the contact of poison, the poison occurs white foam, so it is valued by the emperor, made into cups and other utensils to test food, so that rhino horn carving has become a famous variety of ancient horn carving. Court craftsmen carved wine glasses based on the natural shape of rhino horns for the emperor to enjoy.
Asian rhino horn
Rhino horn wrench
Rhinoceros hand beads
Rhinoceros Buddha beads
The rhino horn bracelet is enough to make a round bracelet, and the rhino horn of this size is also rare
Rhinoceros cicada hanging ornament
Rhinoceros Guanyin
Tiger gluttonous cup
Ivory carving
Turning back and beating hard, the barefoot Persians went into the ivory.
Ivory is narrowly the fangs of male elephants, but broadly can also refer to the fangs or bones of other animals (such as mammoths, hippos, wild boars, walruses, whales, etc.). Ivory is often processed into works of art, jewellery or jewelry, in addition to being processed into billiard balls and piano keys, which is a very expensive raw material. In ancient China, it was used by the court magnates to make wat boards, pen holders, ornaments and so on.
The best ivory, showing a jelly-like texture
Ivory bracelets come from modern craftsmanship
Clear ivory red lady snuff bottle
Pine crane pen holder
Qingqianlong dragon pattern pen holder
Ivory incense burner
The Kowloon Bridge ornaments can be seen in the undiscarbed brown part of the bottom
The ivory ball process is incredibly complex
Dragon button square seal
Ivory fan
The craftsmen of the ivory mat court could have cut the ivory into thin slices and woven it into fans or mats, but today this technique has been lost, and only a small amount of ivory weaving remains today.
hawksbill
How to knot acacia, double beads tortoiseshell hairpin.
The raw material of tortoiseshell jewelry is taken from the scales on its back and is organic. The carapace of adult hawksbill turtles is brightly yellow-brown. Tortoiseshell sheet pattern crystal clear, noble and elegant, is immortal for thousands of years, is the best of decorative collection. Tortoiseshell is highly toxic and cannot be eaten, but for medicinal purposes, its antipyretic and detoxification effect is comparable to rhinoceros horn, which is a valuable Traditional Chinese medicine, which has the miraculous effect of clearing heat, detoxifying and suppressing terrorism and lowering blood pressure.
Tortoiseshell specimen
Tortoiseshell jewelry box
Tortoiseshell hair comb
Tortoiseshell bracelet
Tortoiseshell bead chain
Tortoiseshell guzheng nails
Tortoiseshell relief pen holder
Tortoiseshell bowl
Tortoiseshell aromatherapy
Tortoiseshell cup
Tortoiseshell carved crane snuff bottle
Red coral
Thousands of years of cultivation into a beautiful tree, the world began to know the red coral.
Red coral culture has a long history in China, as well as in the traditional culture of Indian and Indian peoples, especially the indigenous Indians and Chinese Tibetans and other nomadic peoples are more fond of red coral, and even use red coral as a sustenance for protection and prayer for heaven's blessing. The coral body is shaped like a tree, one inch long in 20 years, one kilogram in 300 years, with a solid texture and bright red color. In China, coral is a symbol of auspiciousness and wealth and has always been used to make precious crafts. Red coral is a court ornament of the past, coral trees, bonsai, concubine crowns, and crowns of princes and ministers.
Natural red coral
Red coral ornamentation
Red coral teapot
Red coral old man carving
Red coral bracelet
Red coral beads
Silver ring with red coral ring face
Red coral earrings
Red coral official hat top beads
Red coral towards the beads
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