Judge Old Furniture Modeling And Structure

By Author: tony stevens
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Because of huge profits, in recent years, there are lots of fake ancient furniture in the market, if you are planning to spend lots of your money on ancient furniture, you should be more careful when buying them. In short, you have know some basic knowledge and clearly know how to distinguish the fake ancient furniture and genuine ones.

When judging the ancient furniture, you should at first know its production time, which is one of the important factors. Focusing on this point, you should know the furniture modeling and its structure.

Firstly, the types of furniture modeling. As is known to all, the Ming Dynasty furniture mainly include the chair stool, couch, desk case, cabinet and screens while there is something difference on Qing dynasty furniture’s modeling. For example, the deck chair was invented in the late Qing Dynasty and it is rare to find round table among authentic Ming Dynasty furniture. If you have seen some old round tables, they should be manufactured in the Qing dynasty. During the Qing dynasty, tea table became more and more popular and in fact it was differentiated from incense burner table. ...
... The only different between tea table and incense burner table is that tea table is too much lower and always be placed among two armchairs. In addition, nest of tables is one of the unique furniture in Qing dynasty. Screen was too much popular in both the Ming Dynasty and Qing dynasty, however, the hanging panel was appeared until the late of Ming Dynasty.

Secondly, pay attention on the structure change to make your judgement. Take the armchair for example, if both ends of handrails are short, it must be the early handrail design, one of the remarkable Ming Dynasty furniture and its manufacture time should not be later than middle of Qing dynasty. Another example is the cabinet, when looking at Ming Dynasty cabinet, it is easy to find round corner cabinet and all the legs are separated obviously, meanwhile, you can see all kinds of smooth lines as decorative items and the carving skill is not paid more attention. On the contrary, during the Qing dynasty, such round corner cabinet became less and less and was gradually replaced by square shape cabinet, which is straight and flat. At the middle of Qing dynasty, carving workmanship was paid more attention and its shaped was changed from the simple patterns to the complicated patterns, it is their remarkable feature.

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