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13.7cm Tiny White Long Chair
Background Information :
In Ming and Qing dynasty China, the chair could signify status and achievement, and terms like official's hat chair, grand master's chair (taishi yi), as well as base stretchers that ascend with each step came to symbolize the age-old aspiration toward emolument.
Most traditional chair forms emerged during the Tang (618-907) and Song (960-1279) dynasties, and over centuries of gradual refinement, developed into to the mature classical patterns that are universally admired today. Differing in size, construction, materials, and decoration, the traditional chairs generally fit into the following categories
Gold and silver colors are usually used for gods and spirits. The main color in a facial makeup symbolizes the disposition of the character. The facial makeups date a long time back to the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1271-1368) dynasties at least. Simple patterns of painted faces are found in tomb murals of that age. During the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), improvements were made in the skills of drawing and in preparing the paints, leading to the whole set of colorful facial patterns that we see in today's Jingju (BeijiThe Qing-style chair appears as a large stool with separate railings attached above, differing from integrated construction of the traditional chair with arm and back posts continuous with the legs below. Many have no back inclination, but are rather perpendicular and straight without any vertical splay. The railings are often decorated with angular scrolling and/or carved decoration. Contrasted to the sculpted ease of the earlier classical forms, these chairs have a stiff, formal appearance.