Built during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, known as "the Garden of Thousands of gardens", was the imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty. When talking about the Old Summer Palace, we can't help talking about the Western buildings. The western buildings were designed by the Italian missionary soil, such as Castiglione and others, and guided the builders to build. In 1714, he was sent to China by the church, taking the name of The Han dynasty, and was appreciated by emperor Qianlong, who ordered him to build European-style garden architecture in the Old Summer Palace, which is now the Western buildings. The Qing emperor's preference for European style can be seen from this.
Since then, European style is all the rage inside the court for a while, this kind of popularity also is reflected in the making of furniture. In Chinese traditional culture, the biggest characteristic of furniture is to take straight line as the beauty, back of the chair, armrest are straight line, right Angle; And European rococo adornment is contrary to it, be good at in order to show curvaceousness, besides common passionflower, still have a grain of vine, grape to wait, the crafters that make do an office press the instructions of the emperor, blend in Western characteristic gradually in furniture, enhanced artistic appeal, make appear unique characteristic.
The rococo style of a typical European Renaissance period of the qing dynasty rosewood passionflower grain big armchair, in the office is a qing dynasty palace created craftsman of European classic "passion" grain as the main decorative patterns, of rare rosewood as raw material, the brick carvings, medial valuable.such handiwork grass in the back of the chair and armrest, continuous curled up with a clear rococo style,Make this pair of armchairs added a lot of new ideas on the basis of traditional furniture, appear all the more novel and chic.This chair has the composed atmosphere of Furniture of Chinese rosewood already, the luxuriant much appearance that contains western style again, it is the best work of Chinese and western fit.
Description: It is 98 cm high, 58 cm long and 50 cm wide
The chair is 98 cm high, 58 cm long and 50 cm wide. The head, armrest and joint stick are all curved, and the back is slightly curved.The seat panel falls into the hall.The whole body xiu black paint, belongs to plain lacquer furniture, is the Ming Dynasty production and use of the most extensive furniture varieties.
