清 銀鎏金掐絲燒藍龍紋四足方爐

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英文品名：A QING GILT-SILVER FILIGREE AND BLUE-ENAMELED FOUR-FOOTED SQUARE CENSER WITH DRAGONS 尺寸：L:15cm;W:4cm;H:15cm 銀鎏金，掐絲工藝。體呈方形，立耳外撇，四足細長。器身滿布金掐絲網地，正面鏨出升龍一條，龍身鱗片刻畫細密，間飾火珠、祥雲，並鑲綠松石圓珠。蓋面鏤空，鈕為立龍。足與耳均燒藍，色澤明麗。工藝繁複，為清代宮廷風金屬香火之器。掐絲之法，將金銀錘成細絲，以鑷子屈轉掐結成網紋輪廓，焊接於器胎，再在輪廓內填燒藍琺瑯釉，經多次燒焊、研磨、打磨而成。燒藍即掐絲琺瑯之屬，銅絲掐龍鱗，內填藍釉，火溫逾八百度，釉料熔融後略縮，故需反覆填燒三四次方滿。銀胎鎏金者較銅胎更顯華貴，清代宮造辦處與民間銀樓皆能為之。綠松石則於器面開圓槽，以粘料或錘揲固定，是清代金銀器常見做法。 A square censer in gilt-silver filigree, with upright outward-flaring handles and four slender feet. The body is covered in a mesh of gold filigree, over which an ascending dragon is chased, scales finely defined, amid flaming pearls and auspicious clouds, set with turquoise beads. The pierced cover is surmounted by a dragon knob. Handles and feet are finished in blue enamel. The workmanship is intricate. Filigree, or wire-pinching, involves hammering gold or silver into hair-thin wires, bending them with tweezers into outlines, and soldering them to a body. The cells are then filled with blue enamel paste and fired repeatedly at over eight hundred degrees, ground back and refilled three or four times until level, the technique known as cloisonné. A silver-gilt body is more costly than the common copper cloisonné used for ordinary wares; both the Imperial Workshops and private Cantonese silversmiths produced such pieces. The turquoise beads are set into round sockets and fixed with adhesive or riveting, a common Qing practice on luxury metalwork.

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