Study On The Modern Application Of Carved Ornaments On Ming & Qing Furniture

Ming & Qing Furniture possesses the most distinguishable status in the history of Chinese traditional furniture development. Their elegant ornaments which embodied the rich Chinese cultural connotation are very important sources to be absorbed by modern Chinese furniture. We had collected large numbers of ornaments which were carved on Ming & Qing Furniture to establish an ornaments database. Then we sorted and epurated these ornaments in order to satisfy the requirement of Chinese modern furniture manufacture.In this paper, qualitative induction methodology was the main research method. At the same time, according to variety of research contents, we adopted various methods. We collected the ornaments by searched literatures, visited traditional furniture museum. We adopted induce, comparison analysis and ANOV to sorted and analyzed the ornaments. As to ornaments epurated and ornaments carved technique in furniture manufacturers, we toke case-study and cost-analysis as the method.The main results are as followings:A. Have set up a database for the ornaments which were carved on Ming & Qing Furniture. By comparison analysis and ANOV, we analyzed the characteristic of various ornaments sorts and captured the relationship between ornament sorts and carved positions. All the ornaments were redrawn by pencil which can be directly identified by digital carving machine.B. After studying on the situations that carved ornaments are applied on modern Chinese furniture, author brings forward five principles on how to epurate the ornaments to satisfy the requirement of modern Chinese furniture manufacturing. They are directly adoption, simplified abstraction, exaggeration, restructuring. Furthermore we epurated some ornaments in terms of the above principles.C. Base on discussing the carving technique that furniture manufactures adopted, we analyzed the...