Recommended Boutique ----Copper elephant ear tripod furnace
我国的工艺品的文化历史悠久，除了丝绸刺绣、木雕、陶瓷等，金属器具类的品类可谓繁多。比如铜炉，焚香之器具，与花瓶、烛台一齐供养于佛前，为比丘十八物之一。是中国古代铜器一个独特的品种，包括炭炉（又称燎炉）、温酒炉、熏炉、手炉等，这些铜制的炉基本上都是实用器具。和其他中国古代实用器一样，古代铜炉同时也是艺术品，并且深深地刻上了传统吉祥文化的烙印。
China's arts and crafts culture has a long history, in addition to silk embroidery, wood carving, ceramics, etc., the category of metal utensils can be described as numerous. For example, a copper stove, an instrument for burning incense, is offered to the Buddha together with vases and candlesticks, and is one of the eighteen things of the bhikkhu. Is a unique variety of ancient Chinese copper, including carbon furnace (also known as singed furnace), warm wine furnace, smoke stove, hand stove, etc., these copper furnaces are basically practical utensils. Like other ancient Chinese practical objects, ancient copper furnaces are also works of art, and deeply engraved with the traditional auspicious culture.
我公司近期征集了“铜质象耳三足炉”一件，这件盛器通体为青铜质，呈三足型，高26cm，上口径12.3cm。敞口，腹下收，一对象耳分置相对两侧。这个象耳炉古雅浑厚，通身光素，打磨精良，包浆温润，造型非常的古朴，但特别的精神。炉身形制规整，色泽凝重，器表莹润，光华内敛，色泽蕴藏于内，映出黯淡奇光，灿烂自然，给人以细腻柔滑之感。器物华贵堂皇，器身沉重，通体鎏金，金水厚亮，灿灿发光。此炉铸造精细，端庄大气，陈设屋宇，别具韵味。腹底立三实足，短粗有力，向外弯曲，坚实而稳定。不仅从冶炼、铸造、铜制还是造型等工艺来说都是铜炉当中的精品。
Our company recently collected a piece of "copper elephant ear tripod furnace", this container is bronze, tripod type, 26cm high, 12.3cm upper caliber. Open, lower abdomen, one object ear separate opposite sides. This elephant ear furnace is elegant and thick, full of light, polished, warm paste, the shape is very simple, but special spirit. The shape of the furnace body is regular, the color is dignified, the surface is glossy, the light is restrained, the color is hidden in the inside, reflecting the dim strange light, brilliant natural, giving people a delicate and smooth feeling. The objects are magnificent, the body is heavy, the whole body is gilded, and the gold water is thick and bright. This furnace casting fine, dignified atmosphere, furnishings house, unique charm. The belly bottom is solid, short and strong, curved outwards, solid and stable. Not only from smelting, casting, copper or modeling and other processes are the best of the copper furnace.
四季变化人类需要避暑防寒。炭炉，就是古人在天寒地冻时燎炭取暖的用具，类似于现在的火盆。所以铜炉最初的定义就是“盛火器”。炭炉在中国很早就出现，在商代墓葬中已有出土。春秋战国时期，我国的青铜文明进入高峰期，炭炉已是贵族阶层的日常用具。早期的炭炉多为圆形，下有三足，口沿外有链环作提携之用。
The four seasons change. People need heat to protect themselves from the cold. Charcoal stove, is the ancient people in the cold when the charcoal heating utensils, similar to the present braziers. So the original definition of the copper furnace is "firearm". Charcoal stoves appeared very early in China and have been unearthed in the tombs of the Shang Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period, the bronze civilization of our country entered the peak period, and the charcoal stove was already the daily appliance of the noble class. Early carbon stoves were mostly round, with three feet under and a chain link on the outside of the mouth for carrying.
在古代铜器中,铜炉是一个比较特殊的品种,明代宣德铜炉诞生后,铜炉更成为文人墨客推崇的对象，是中国的著名特种金属工艺品类之一，随着历史发展，铜炉已经不单是使用的器具，更胜身份地位的象征。此炉身两侧铸两象耳，富贵大气。象是瑞兽，厚重稳行，故有“太平有象”之吉意装饰。“太平有象”是中国传统题材，《汉书王芥传》中记载“天下太平，五谷成熟”，太平有象即天下太平、五谷丰登的意思。象耳炉寓意“四海升平、吉祥平安”之福瑞，更寓意“福寿天地无双。。普贤菩萨骑白象、文殊菩萨骑青狮，都有普度众生、广结佛缘的意思。此炉既稳重古朴又灵韵十足，且象鼻善吸水，五行中水主财，故也有招财进宝之意。
In ancient copper ware, copper furnace is a relatively special variety, after the birth of Xuande copper furnace in the Ming Dynasty, copper furnace has become the object of admiration of scholars and writers, is one of the famous special metal crafts in China, with the development of history, copper furnace is not only the use of utensils, but also a symbol of status. The two sides of the furnace cast two elephant ears, rich atmosphere. Like is the auspicious beast, thick and steady, so there is "peace and elephant" auspicious decoration. "Peace has elephant" is a traditional Chinese theme, "Wang Mustard Biography of the Han Dynasty" recorded "the world is peaceful, the grain is mature", peace has elephant meaning that the world is peaceful, the grain is abundant. Elephant ear furnace means "four seas rising, auspicious peace" of the Furui, but also means "happiness and longevity of heaven and earth. Universal Bodhisattva riding a white elephant, Manjusri Bodhisattva riding a green lion, both have the meaning of universal sentient beings and broad Buddha. This furnace is both stable and simple and full of spirit, and the elephant nose is good at absorbing water, the five elements of the water master wealth, so it also has the meaning of wealth.
古人以书画会友，品茗论道，从来与香密不可分。于静室中焚香，看青烟袅袅，抚琴作伴。 衣需香熏，被需香暖，读书以香为友，独处以香为伴。焚香习俗也与铜炉文化密不可分，通常人们为了礼仪将衣服薰香，更多的是古代文人雅士喜欢在读书、写字的书房内，焚上一柱香，营造“红袖添香夜读书”的意境。早在汉代以前就出现陶、瓷、铜、铁、瓦为材料制成的香炉。元末明初随着铜器铸造业的迅速发展，原先其它材料的香炉，逐渐被铜香炉所取代，明代宣德年间是铜香炉制作的巅峰阶段。近年来,铜炉越来越受收藏者的追捧,一尊精致的象耳三足炉乃是不可多得的尊贵收藏品。
The ancients used calligraphy and painting to meet friends, drink tea and talk about Taoism, and have always been inseparable from incense. Burn incense in the quiet room, see the smoke curling up, play the piano for company. Clothes need incense, need to be fragrant warm, reading with incense as a friend, alone with incense as a companion. The custom of burning incense is also closely related to the copper furnace culture, usually people incense clothes for etiquette, more ancient literati like to burn a column of incense in the study where they read and write, creating the mood of "red sleeves add incense to night reading". As early as before the Han Dynasty, there were incense burners made of pottery, porcelain, copper, iron and tile. With the rapid development of copper casting industry in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, the original incense burners of other materials were gradually replaced by copper incense burners. The Xuande period of Ming Dynasty was the peak stage of copper incense burners. In recent years, copper furnaces have become more and more sought after by collectors, and a delicate elephant ear tripod furnace is a rare and noble collection.
以上藏品相关信息请与：四川尊古拍卖集团有限公司联系。
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