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Tiffany wholesale diamond ring six claw swept the world for hundreds of years before the Chinese royal jewelry craftsmen has created a mosaic of the world's best - silk inlay. They will be processed into gold and silver and other precious metal filaments, and then pushed through the barrier, filigree, weaving and other processes for modeling. It can be welded to the gold and silver square chip, made at the end of care, pearl, crystal, jade, jade and other jewelry, designed in accordance with the needs of craftsmen, fixed at different angles on the gold and silver jewelry; can independently shape, a modified creative composition in detail.
Beijing Palace Museum collection in many pocket watch, use a mosaic filaments. Case on the figure, only the size of a grain of rice, but fiber cents, even eyelashes are stud is clear, under careful observation, but also identify some people's eyes is black, some are blue.
Filaments was founded in the Han Dynasty, dating back over 2,000 years of history, but mostly used in early Buddhist statues, or the Royal crown, grace is more than clever enough. In the Ming dynasty, the whole nation advocating hand, the pursuit of Kit Kat, filigree craft also received an unprecedented breakthrough, and cloisonne, ivory carving, embroidery and other palace known as the "Yanjing Eight absolutely."
Yuan, Ming Yang, an expert on gold and silver water in his writings, "the luxury of color" in detail described Nanchang Ming Dynasty unearthed a gold wire tired (tired silk is a silk craft) to catch bees and butterflies flower-tin: "with nine centimeters long, narrow gold bars made of a curved beam, plain edge wire pinch for peony, peach, apricot and two of the Travelling Bee, an outline of butterflies. thin gold film to play for bees and butterflies of the trunk, flower, petals, wings flat fill thin coil wire, and then save each weld, a mosaic of small pieces. nine spent in helping them through the system from a fine gold decorated on the curved beam, and then do a 'screw' removing wire, one end of the in bees and butterflies, one end of the petals from flowers in the core or go through and then tied to bend beams, bees and butterflies gently stir in the flower on it and different attitude, butterflies are flowers of the moment is convergence bee wings will travel down the hardly ever the moment. "
Cartier is known the world, mostly because it has a beautiful title - "king of jewelers." The Emperor of China, not only has its own dedicated Jewelry Workshop (silver for the Bureau of the Ming Dynasty is the inner court of the Qing Dynasty was made to do at the Imperial Household), and many kings more personally involved in jewelry design.
Qing Dynasty Yongzheng 16 October 2007, Hall of Mental Cultivation Record Office was once such a file: "Eunuch Liu Xiwen handed: mid rich mosaic gold wire hairpin tired a pair of beads embedded four, ruby two , inlaid gold tired yucca flower hairpin pair, four embedded beads, gems two, plum hairpin pair, gourd hairpin pair, each embedded beads six, two gems. edicts: the practice of this hairpin is very good, with do the same kind of do with, chin this. "
Royal jewelry, not only pay attention to selected materials, fine hand, we also demand patterns and designs to bring good luck, bless peace.
Emperor Qianlong for his mother to celebrate sixtieth birthday, the longevity of specially prepared in dozens of innovative style, propitious jewelry, for example: all the best hairpin, hairpin Mei Ying Sheng mining, cotton Gyeongbokgung long hairpin, hairpin book on Yongqin , Riyuesheng constant Wanshou hairpin, Yan Fung & P fan hairpin, hairpin auspicious years, square flower pot Jirui side (coming from the flower), Jade Pool side clearance for the flowers, the West pool Longevity hairpin, hairpin years Song Zhu, Qing Yi hairpin Mary Rose , pro-Fu Qing Yun hairpin, hairpin, etc. containing aromatic green snow.
Beijing Palace Museum has on display a treasure from the pearl, coral, sapphire inlaid into Jinzan. Hairpin shaped head is a large pearl, about five centimeters long, looks like a naughty doing dance-like. Pearl on the left decorated with a sapphire carving of Aquarius, insert a few pieces of thin bottle of red coral branches set off a "safe" word. Gold edged behind wishful urchin handle it with Aquarius as a single entity, and gold silk Ganoderma wishful tired head exposed in naughty right. Entire hairpin together, known as the "boy know I was safe."
"Filament", the "Green Point" is also a Chinese jewelry unique process: first with gold, silver flower-shaped pieces made by the end of care, and then with gold floral pattern around the edge of the raised groove welding. In the middle of the concave part of the glue, scissors cut with a small kingfisher feathers, feathers tweezers gently arranged on the rubber coated base. Kingfisher blue hair with emerald green and snow for the top grade, whichever is colorful, durable reclaim. 1958 Dingling unearthed in Beijing Jing Xiao Ming Dynasty Empress inlay jewelry-point Green Coronet, not see the light of the palace buried 300 years, still magnificent, bright and charming.
Jade came to China in the Qing dynasty court, the Manchu ladies comb "two head" needed to flat side, mostly jade production. National Palace Museum's collection of jade flat square, and some green water, and some jade inlaid in gold and silver, blue sky Longevity, floral, bats and other auspicious patterns.
To wen and dynasty, as the Empress Dowager Cixi's crazy obsession, known as the "Royal Jade" Jade once more in the Chinese bid set off a nationwide craze.
A legend that the Empress had been a queen because no, can not wear "wife had" exclusive red dress, only you can use a "concubine" of pink and green. Become the Queen Mother, she is still very sensitive to this. Banquet held in the palace, the Empress often come up with their own generous collection of jewelry, so come to the party girls of the family were selected. Brought up by the Empress, and in particular the title of the canonization of the princess daughter of Prince Gong - "Rongshougongzhu" the most understanding of her mind, always take the lead selection of green jade, great Empress favor. See other aristocracy and Ming Fu, also have to follow, every important occasion, some wearing jade jewelry.
In the Empress's birthday, one studying abroad returned from a foreign minister, for the Queen Mother presented a mosaic of an elephant by the diamond ornaments, the result is surprised to find that he had received the reward, much less offer another small jade pendant Minister rich.
Empress after the death of the eunuch Li Lien-ying in his book "Love on Xuan notes" to write down: the Queen Mother's buried with the kind of unique in the world there are three treasures of jade, a jade cabbage, two jadeite watermelon. Jade is a green leafy white heart cabbage, vegetables down with a heart full of green katydid, leaves next to two yellow wasp; jade watermelon is green skin, red flesh, black seeds - all natural colors, from the heart with a clever craftsmen ride.
Today, the Palace Museum in Taipei, you can see the famous jade cabbage tree. But one of jadeite watermelon, but being opened in the Sun Dianying after errand, no slightest news.
