Mahogany introduction

The origin of rosewood:

Historically, mahogany is mainly used to make rosewood furniture and rosewood arts and crafts. It is closely linked with Ming style furniture. The Ming Dynasty ", Megatron quartet. 27800 men's rate of history, 62 passenger ship, starting from today, Jiangsu of Taicang, which lasted for 28 years (AD 1405 to 1433), many times to Vietnam and Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Java and Sumatra, India and other 30 room, the farthest reaches of the Red Sea and the east coast of Africa to Mecca, porcelain, silk, Chinese copper iron exchange local specialty. The so-called "seven voyages to the west" by Zheng Sanbao means that during the Ming Dynasty, China was closely related to South Asia (Southeast Asia), and the Southeast Asian countries carried back the Chinese mahogany back to China in the form of trade and tribute.

Chinese and Southeast Asia commercial activities it has been 350600 years ago, at the same time, mahogany is important commodity input. With the passage of time, year by year logging results, so that precious rosewood resources are decreasing year by year. At present, the supply of mahogany is more intense, some furniture manufacturers purchase large quantities of old mahogany furniture to be reformed, or imported timber of similar quality. The so-called "mahogany old more valuable" argument, can be compared with the wine Chen Yuxiang, but also shows that today's purchase of mahogany is difficult, classical mahogany furniture and mahogany arts and crafts have greatly appreciated. According to reports, in an exhibition on a Qing Dynasty during the decline of western style mahogany furniture sofa price of hundreds of thousands of yuan, ten thousand or twenty thousand yuan; a fine piece of classical furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties the value of one million yuan, or even more than 10 million yuan. According to the "China catalogue" and "Ming Dynasty furniture Chinese Qing Dynasty furniture catalogue" (1994, China Forestry Press) on the furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties valuation, ranging from 2 to 30 thousand yuan, more than 15 - 200 thousand yuan. This is a symbol of today's appreciation of rosewood products, really things to dilute the expensive. Rosewood furniture is concentrated in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changshu, Suzhou and other places, mainly related to shipping, concentrated in Beijing, may be related to the emperor lived in beijing.

Rosewood and its products

Mahogany wood and eye color, fine structure, beautiful patterns, is the quality of wood after longtesting and screening. For the manufacture of Ming and Qing Dynasty classical furniture products and modern mahogany furniture, mahogany ornaments, and the "scholar's four jewels" carving crafts, not only practical, artistic and value in one, and can show the literacy status and status of the master bedroom. This kind of precious annatto product, which is called "red art culture", is not only cherished by the people, but also favored by the international people.

Ming style furniture is developed based on the Song Dynasty furniture on the rise because of the unprecedented economic development, shipping, and landscape architecture to promote, by the court's supervision for the Royal arrangements, for the Ming Dynasty style furniture has become a model for Chinese furniture creates favorable conditions. Ming style furniture adapted to the needs of the masses, to meet the practical requirements of life, as well as to paint or to maintain the nature of wood painted wax features. Qing style furniture focuses on engraving, but also absorbed the western furniture modeling, but also made by the palace office.

Modern furniture mahogany furniture of the Ming and Qing Dynasties inherited the classical tradition, on the one hand, adhering to the tenon, lace, engraving, inlay and copper ornaments (accessories), to maintain the beauty of the ancient style and artistic style; on the other hand, the absorption characteristics of western furniture and the use of modern science and technology, due to the specific circumstances of the country's different, mainly in Beijing style, Soviet style, Cantonese style and style as the representative of shanxi. On the whole, the North focuses more on saving materials; the south, especially the Cantonese style, focuses more on engraving and seiko. Such as the Su style furniture focus on the human body functions, molding shape decorated with be the most changeful, painted, and focus on grinding. The traditional Su paint process requires 21 processes. Suzhou is also the production center of Ming style furniture.

Oriental Art Treasures

In many countries museums have used rosewood products as precious cultural relics. In November 1991 and October 1992 in Beijing and Suzhou held the International Symposium on Ming furniture, experts and scholars in the United States Britain Japan France, Sweden, Australia and other countries and Hongkong, Taiwan and other regions of the. Foreign scholars have long been devoted to the study of Ming style furniture, such as G.Ecke1942, was published in 1991, "Chinese domestic furniture"; the Japanese scholar Sudo Shiakishi in the "Nanyang" book for material "Tang wood" in the name of wood wrote: "since Tang wood has beautiful appreciation value, can make furniture joinery, arts and crafts (Tang wood crafts), also known as rosewood, rosewood, ebony, including when including aloes, Ironwood, Kiara, Mei Tandeng thyine class. Tang Mu was introduced by China at the time, because Chinese arts and crafts were made of Tang wood. What is called valuable timber is decorative material. The name "Tang wood" is not used in other areas except for the wood mentioned above." In fact, the above trees are what we call Redwood today.