Yangzhou Museum

扬州博物馆

贴金箔彩绘神兽云气纹五子漆奁

Apply gold foil to paint immortals and wild beasts with cloud pattern and five lacquer toilet boxes.

Western Han Dynasty.

Han tomb unearthed in Changjie village, Yangmiao township, Hanjiang district.

This set of lacquered toilet boxes are all sandwiched with twins.

Painted black on the outside and red ochre on the inside.

Each cover is decorated with four-leaf or six-leaf persimmon pedicel, the center of persimmon pedicel and persimmon leaves are inlaid with beads, and the persimmon leaves are covered with gold foil and carved into cloud patterns.

Two silver buckles at the top and two silver inlays.

Each buckle and inlay is carved into a moire with gold foil chisel, and the moire is decorated with birds of various gestures.

The round box is in the shape of a cylinder, with straight wall and straight mouth and flat lips.

There are two or three silver buckles on the lid and the body, and the edges and corners are encased in silver, and the silver buckles are cut into flakes with gold foil, which are engraved and painted with Liuyun landscapes, figures and animals, mainly Queen Mother of the West, feathered people, peacocks, Caragana and so on.

Two pieces of silver at the bottom of the box are embedded into a circle of feet.

伎乐飞天金栉

Qiyue Feitian golden bar.

Tang.

12.5 high, 14.5 wide and 0.04 cm thick.

The construction site of Sanyuan Road in Yangzhou City was unearthed in 1983.

The golden bar is a headdress, carved with a thin piece of gold hollowed out.

Horseshoe-shaped, the lower part is comb-shaped.

The upper part of the comb face is covered with decorative patterns, and the central main pattern is made of cirrus-like vine grass, decorated with two symmetrical music flying apsaras.

The flying world is decorated with a Ruyi cloud pattern.

The periphery is decorated with multiple stripes, such as single-phase lotus petal ribbon, double-thread lotus bead band, hollowed-out fish scale band, hollowed-out twig-wrapped plum blossom butterfly band and so on.

金佛像

Golden Buddha statue.

Southern Tang Dynasty.

It is 8.7 high, 5.1 wide, 0.02 cm thick and weighs 17 grams.

In 1997, five dynasties tombs were unearthed at the construction site of post and telecommunications staff dormitory on Chengdong Road, Yangzhou City.

The statue of the Golden Buddha is made by hammering with extremely thin gold plates.

At the bottom is the lotus throne covered with the lotus, the Buddha sits in a high bun, wearing a cassock, decorated with beads on the robe, and sitting in a knot, with a pointed arched back screen behind, with a lotus petal around the edge, broken branches and flowers around the Buddha's body, carved with very fine lines on the petals and leaves, and small holes around the body.

There are not many golden Buddha statues found in the five dynasties, this Buddha statue is meticulous, exquisite craftsmanship, and has high appreciation and research value.

金冠、嵌珠宝龙、凤金簪

Golden Crown, Jewelry Dragon, Fengjin hairpin.

Qing Dynasty.

The crown has a height of 6.8 cm, a diameter of 8.3 cm, a weight of 32.4 grams, a length of 12.4 cm, a weight of 17.7 grams, a length of 14.5 cm and a weight of 23.2 grams.

In 1972, it was unearthed in the west of Hanjiang Jiudian.

This three-piece set of gold wares is used for hair bundling, which is refined by various techniques, such as chisel carving, hammering, wire-cutting, weaving and mosaic, etc.

The crown is made of pure gold and is composed of crown circumference, crown beam and crown ears on both sides, with protruding bead moire engraved on the upper chisel, and small holes opposite each other on all sides of the crown circumference, which is used to wear hairpins.

The leading golden hairpin is in the shape of a golden dragon looking back and opening its mouth, which is decorated with red treasures and pearls under the mouth, head and neck respectively.

The Phoenix hairpin image is complete, the Phoenix is in the shape of spreading wings, the body and wings of the Phoenix are hollowed out with gold strands into fine feather patterns, the ridge is hollowed out with leaf patterns, and the whole body is inlaid with several red treasures and pearls.

This group of jewelry-embedded hair gold wares are well-made and richly decorated, representing the craftsmanship of gold wares made in Yangzhou in the Qing Dynasty.

嵌宝石金耳坠

Gold earrings inlaid with gems.

Tang.

It has a height of 8.2, a ball diameter of 1.6 cm and a weight of 21.5 grams.

The construction bank site at the west head of Sanyuan Road in Yangzhou City was unearthed in 1983.

The earring consists of a hanging ring, a hollowed-out golden ball and a pendant.

The section of the upper hanging ring is round, the middle ring is decorated with gold spring, and the two pearls are placed symmetrically under the ring; the hollowed-out golden ball in the middle is woven into a seven-petal lotus petal pattern with filament and monofilament, and the upper and lower hemispheric patterns are opposite.

The ball top welds the hollow small cylinder and the transverse ring, and the upper hanging ring is connected through the transverse ring.

The waist of the golden ball is welded with 6 symmetrical embedded holes and 6 small gold rings, and rubies and glass beads are retained in some of the embedded holes; there are 7 identical pendants in the lower part, 6 are tied to the small gold ring at the waist of the golden ball, and 1 is hung on the gold ring at the center of the lower end of the golden ball.

The upper part of each pendant is made into a spring, with a filament gold ring, pearl and glazed pearl in the middle, and a ruby falling from it.

Earrings are exquisitely made and beautifully decorated, which are the treasures of gold jewelry in the Tang Dynasty.