Copper inlaid silver silk cicada pattern animal swallowing ear ring foot furnace

[Copper inlaid silver wire cicada pattern animal ear swallowing ring foot furnace]

Copper inlaid silver wire cicada pattern animal ear swallowing ring foot furnace, bright, 8.1 cm high, 11.3 cm diameter. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The copper furnace is a Gui-shaped vessel. The mouth is extravagant, the neck is closed, the belly is bulging, the left and right sides are decorated with animal swallowing ears, and the feet are circled. The watch is inlaid with silver cicada pattern, the neck and foot are decorated with echo pattern, and the neck is decorated with cicada pattern
This stove is ancient, unsophisticated, well-made, and has fine and coarse patterns. The paste is thick and natural, almost covering the decoration inlaid with silver. It is admirable that the casting and inlaying technology is exquisite, and it is still in good spirits under the erosion of time. The Xuande furnace was originally cast in the style of archaize ware, not out of imagination, so the bronze Gui also belongs to one of the original forms. The cicada pattern and the echo pattern were originally important decorative patterns on the Shang and Zhou bronzes. In October 1977, Mr. Geng Baochang and Mr. Wang Wenchang identified this furnace as a Ming Dynasty utensil.