<h1>Shroud paint</h1>
The so-called cover paint is to use transparent paint, paint on a variety of different lacquer floor utensils, as if the transparent cover painted a layer. On the different lacquer floors covered with transparent lacquer, some are one-color lacquerware, and some are ornamental lacquerware. Due to the different background colors of the paint under the cover paint, and there are different names, there are several practices of covering vermilion, covering yellow hair, covering gold beard, sprinkling gold, collectively referred to as cover paint.
Wood carving cover lacquered tiger pen holder
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Due to the transparent paint covered on the surface of the original lacquer floor, the surface appears bright and moist, and the pattern of the original lacquer floor is also set off under this layer of transparent paint. However, because it is covered with a layer of transparent paint, the paint color of the lower layer of the transparent paint is darker than that of the unhooded.
There are many gold-clad people in the Ming and Qing courts, such as the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing, the throne and screen of the Qianqing Palace are the physical objects of the golden beard, and many small utensils used in the court are also made by the method of covering the golden hair. The golden throne of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing was originally made by the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty when he rebuilt the Imperial Pole Hall, and this dragon chair was continued to be used after some renovation during the Kangxi Dynasty, and it was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty, which has a history of more than 450 years and is still sparkling and beautiful.
The Golden Throne of the Taihe Hall of the Forbidden City in Beijing
The gold paint of the cover is the golden brilliance that is revealed under the transparent paint, in addition to the characteristics of color and texture, the cover paint also has a significant advantage that it protects the color of the paint floor from fading or grinding off.
Sack cloth tire gold lacquer Buddha statue
Sprinkling gold, also known as aventurine lacquer, that is, some people often call "sprinkling gold land" (or "sprinkling gold land"), refers to the practice of attaching gold pieces or sprinkling gold chips on the color paint floor, and then covering it with transparent paint, so that the paint field with gold dots or gold sheets can reveal the golden lustrous color through the cover paint. Gold flakes or gold chips are large and small, and some are sparse and dense, so that the appearance of lacquerware shows a variety of changes.
Clear vermilion paint sprinkled with gold fan bones
There is a kind of gold shavings sprinkled with gold paint as small as dots, sprinkled very densely, after the cover is painted, it sparkles, and only a closer look can distinguish that it is formed by the gathering of small gold dots. Beijing's cultural relics circles call this sprinkling of gold "golden mantis land", which means a hard beetle that looks like a golden light. Sprinkling gold is generally used to make utensils of the ground or inside, and then apply a variety of ornaments, rarely as a decoration of utensils alone, the Qing Dynasty is very popular in this practice, the Collection of Lacquerware in the Palace Museum in Beijing is very common, and now Fujian Lacquerware is also commonly used in this method, and it is more common in Japanese lacquerware.
There is also a practice of "tracing gold cover paint", which depicts golden patterns on the paint floor (vermilion, black lacquer, yellow paint, etc.), and some are self-love patterns with ink or black paint on the edges, and then covered with the first layer of transparent paint.
<h1>Depiction of gold cover paint appreciation - early Qing Dynasty depiction of gold cover paint cloud dragon pattern box</h1>
Height 117.5 cm, length 73.5 cm, width 57.5 cm, according to the inscription can be known as the original for the study of ink storage. The box is rectangular, with a low seat underneath, and there are two pairs of perforations on the low seat, which can be lifted through the rope, which has the legacy of the Ming Dynasty official box. Its copper-faced leaves are rectangular, and the locks are ruyi-shaped, with both Ming and Qing styles. Under the box is also equipped with a separate several-shaped base, shaped like an ice plate rim, a short tunic waist, bulging legs with bulging teeth, and inverted horseshoe feet to step on the mud.
This box is painted with vermilion paint throughout, and the decoration of yunlong seawater and river cliffs is depicted with thick and light gold leaf. On the front and back of the box is the dragon godson pattern: the head of the old dragon is on the top, which is used as a teaching; The young dragon's toes and claws and whiskers have not yet grown, and the head is lowered, making an upward look; The side of the box is a dragon playing water pattern; The perimeter of the box is decorated with a gold-descripted echo border; The low seat is decorated with gold cloud patterns; The independent several-shaped base is also painted with vermilion paint and decorated with a dragon pattern depicting gold clouds. In that year, after the completion of the depiction, the whole body was covered with thin lacquer to protect the ornamentation. Its dragon hair is scattered, the eyebrows are drooping, the dragon whiskers are slender, the nose is short, and the jaw is long.
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