Orange painted Yunlong border powder wax paper

[Orange Gold Cloud Dragon Edge Powder Wax Paper]

Orange Gold Cloud Dragon Edge Powder Wax Paper, 160.7 cm long and 95.7 cm wide
The color on the back of the paper is sprinkled with gold, and the paper surface is printed with gold clouds and dragons on the sidebar. The gold colored and cloud dragon patterns have decorative characteristics of the mid Qing Dynasty, which is the basis for the identification of the age of paper
The production technology of powdered wax paper began in the Jin and Tang dynasties and was widely used in the processing of paper in the Qing Dynasty. The decoration of this paper avoids the need for extensive decoration, and adopts the form of sidebar, which is its unique feature. According to the analysis of the paper currently stored in the Palace Museum, this type of Yunlong sidebar pattern began to appear in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and was followed and used by various dynasties until the late Qing Dynasty


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