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Today we will visit , Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, , one of the three top museums in the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Classical Furniture is not large in number, mainly Ming-style Huanghuali Furniture. Almost every piece is fine and has highlights. In addition, the museum's exhibition design is cleverly combined with the Ming-style halls in Suzhou gardens. The audience's sense of inclusion is very strong, attracting visitors from all over the world.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art3) is the largest art museum in the United States, covering an area of 130,000 square meters and a total of 3 million collections. It is located at 82nd Street on 5th Avenue, New York, United States. It is known as the world's three top art museums, along with British Museum in London, United Kingdom and Louvre in Paris, France.
Metropolitan Museum of Art Floor Plan
The southeast of the Metropolitan Museum is the Asian Art Exhibition Area, of which Halls No. 217 and No. 218 were named " Mingxuan ". It was built in 1978 in the "Net Master Garden" of Suzhou Garden. The exhibition hall No. 218 was restored according to the living space of Ming Dynasty literati, and displays exquisite Huanghuali Ming-style furniture.
"Mingxuan" courtyard
"Mingxuan" Hall, the plaque is the authentic work of Wen Zhengming
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a batch of Chinese Ming-style furniture as early as 1976. "Mingxuan" was built in 1978. In 1981, these furniture were concentrated in this Chinese literati garden.
In the past four decades, although the furniture decoration in Mingxuan has been added and deleted occasionally, the overall layout remains almost the same as what we have seen in a few days. The built-in Ming-style furniture includes Luohan Bed , Chewing Toe , Qinji, triple cabinet, top box cabinet, , Yitang Nanguan hat chair , etc., showing the charm of Ming-style furniture to countless visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Mingxuan Hall is centered on the Huanghuali Arhat bed. The back of the bed is a three-meter-three-long large tiled table, and the tiled table is decorated with plum vases, Lingbi stones, and jade carvings. There is a cherry tree on both sides of the bed, which fully expresses the symmetrical aesthetics of Ming-style furniture.
displays Huanghuali triple cabinets and Huanghuali piano tables on both sides of the back wall; a pair of Huanghuali top boxes are divided into left and right side and side gables, dignified and elegant.
top box cabinet north of each red sandals southern official hat chair. Each backrest plate contains poems and essays engraved by literati in the late Ming Dynasty. Each one is different, and four are built into a hall, and this is the only example in the world.
Nanguan hat chair is decorated with marble inserts behind the wall. There are only 7 sets of 12 pieces of furniture in the entire space, which is simple and exquisite.
The following is a large picture of each piece of furniture for appreciation—
late Ming and early Qing 17th century Huanghuali Arhat bed
late Ming and early Qing 17th century Huanghuali Books several
late Ming and early Qing 17th century 17th century 17th/18th century 17th/18th century 17th/18th century 17th/18th century 17th/18th century Huanghuali ridge head
late Ming and early Qing 17th/18th century 17th/18th century Huanghuali ridge head
late Ming and early Qing 17th/18th century 17th/18th century 17th/18th century Huanghuali ridge head
late Ming and early Qing 17th/18th century 17th/18th century Huanghuali Sanlian muddy cabinet
Tomorrow night 16th century Huanghuali piano several
Ming 16th century Rosewood guqin
Ming 16th century Huanghuali roof cabinet (one pair)
Ming 17th century Rosewood South official hat chair (one hall four pieces)
In addition to the Ming-style furniture displayed in "Mingxuan", the furniture collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also scattered in several other exhibition halls in the Chinese exhibition area.
For example, a literati table in the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Museum and a pair of Huanghuali treasures embedded in top cabinets, which well sets off the atmosphere of the Calligraphy and Painting Museum.
Ming Sixteenth/Seventeenth Century Huanghuali Painting Case
This painting was originally collected in the China Classical Furniture Museum in California, USA. It was photographed at Christie's in New York in 1993, and was later successfully bid by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This painting is now displayed in the China Calligraphy and Painting Museum in the Metropolitan.
late Ming and early Qing dynasties Huanghuali official hat chair
Qing qing huanghuali pen holder
Ming qing huanghuali treasure ceiling cabinet
other furniture
late Ming and early Qing qing huanghuali head case
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Qing Ching Rose Sandalwood treasures embedded in the God story lifting the beam box
Qing 19th century Ruan Yuan style marble hanging screen
mid-Qing Middle-Year Red Sandalwood jade palace lantern
