中国明清家具英语词汇.doc

Chinese antique furniture glossary（术语表；：难懂或专门性的词汇表，具有解释，） - A 矮老: Pillar-shaped strut. 矮面盆架: Washbasin stand. 矮桌展腿式: Low table with extended legs. Low waisted table which is transformed into a high table by adding round extensions to the square legs. 案: Recessed-leg table. 暗抽屉: Hidden drawers, opened by raising from underneath rather than with a pull. 凹面: Concave moulding Chinese antique furniture glossary - B 拔步床: Alcove bedstead. 百宝嵌: One-hundred- precious-material inlay. 半槽地: Half-and-half relief. The most common type of relief carving with relief and ground occupying about the same amount of space. 半桌: Half table, slightly larger than half an eight Immortals [9ImR:`tel] table. 抱鼓: Embracing drums. The drum-shaped elements at the top of a shoe-foot used to hold the spandrels of screens, clothes racks and lampstands in position. 抱肩榫: Embracing-shoulder tenon. A mitred joint used in waisted furniture of the corner-leg construc-tion to attach the leg and apron. A concealed triangular-shaped tenon in the apron fits into a mortise in the leg. Simultaneously a concealed long and vertical dovetailed tenon slides into a mortise in the apron. 宝塔纹: Pagoda pattern. Term used in Suzhou to describe the natural grain of beech. 包镶: Complete veneer, a hardwood veneer covering the entire piece of furniture. 宝座: Throne, for emperor or god. 宝座式镜台: Throne-type mirror platform. 霸王枨: Giants arm brace, extending from the leg to the underside of the table top at a 45° angle. 八仙桌: Eight Immortals table. Square table suitable for seating eight people. 边簧: Tongue, on four sides of the floating panel of a table top. 边框: Frame. 边抹: Square or rectangular frame, consisting of two sides with tenons and two sides with mortises (.榫眼matou). 鳔胶: Fish glue, the best cabinetmakers glue made from the air bladder of the yellow croaker fish. 冰盘沿: Ice-plate edge. General term for allinward-sloping mouldings. 波纹: Wave lattice. Term found in Yuan ye (The Art of the Garden) and also used for furniture