Famen Temple underground palace treasure Tang Maple Leaf pattern painted gold-blue glass plate, special. The height is 2. 1 cm, the outer diameter is 15.8 cm, the inner diameter of abdomen is 12.5 cm, and the side width is 16 cm.
This plate is made of light blue glass and has a sense of transparency. The center of the plate is blue, the outward radiation gradually becomes shallow, and the tire thickness is uniform, indicating that the molding process is also good. The abdomen is decorated with gold, and the edge is covered with gold, forming a golden wide edge. The plate is engraved with decorative patterns, which are divided into several layers from the inside out.
The center is a group of flowers surrounded by eight banana leaves, which are carved into diagonal lines and wavy lines, alternating with each other; Outside is a circle of water ripples drawn by double lines, inside is inlaid with gold, and between the inner and outer valleys is fruit, and the fruit is also wavy.
Because it is decorated with gold and placed in the underground palace of Famen Temple, it can be seen that this dish is not a practical product in the Tang Dynasty, but a special product.
Sacrificial articles designed and produced for Buddhist worship. Because it has been buried in the underground palace for more than 1000 years, there are many phenomena of gold removal in the wide gold tracing place on the plate, but the fine line gold tracing place is still intact. On the whole, this plate is really a masterpiece. Another blue glass four-petal flower disc, with a diameter of 20 cm, a height of 2.3 cm and a weight of 250 g, is blow-molded and engraved with patterns. Small mouth, flat edge, shallow abdomen, flat bottom. The edge of the plate is folded outward, the abdominal wall is inclined, and the center of the plate bottom is raised, which is the processing trace of the iron bar. The whole body is blue, bright and transparent
The disk is engraved with patterns, with thin parallel lines as the bottom. The main pattern is a cross-shaped frame outlined by two lines, and its four parts and boxes form a "Mo Hraba" pattern, which symbolizes the battle between man and demon and the place where God is. It is the most solemn and sacred place in Islam.
Carve a fig leaf on each of the four pointed petals, and decorate the petals with honeysuckle patterns. The box in the middle is carved with small diagonal checkers alternating with reality. There are grapes, sunflowers, ropes, diamonds, triangular sinuses and cross patterns on the plate, which constitute colorful patterns. Carved patterns and flowers are cold-working decorative techniques.
Famen Temple also has a 2.7-cm-high pomegranate plate with a diameter of 14. 1 cm and a weight of 84 grams, which was enshrined by Tang Xizong. Blow molding. Opening, flanging, round lip, flat bottom. The center of the insole is raised, and there are iron bars on the outer wall of the insole. The insole is painted yellow and the pattern is painted black. 12 semicircle line is applied to the mouth edge to form a circle, the abdominal wall is decorated with two strings, and the pomegranate flower leaf line is drawn at the bottom. Among the glazed colored utensils found in the underground palace of Famen Temple, this plate is the only one painted.
This glass plate embodies glazed glass technology. After blow molding, it is painted with yellow glaze and then painted with black patterns. Because the glass is smooth and difficult to color, a proper amount of mineral pigment is added, and then a mixture of adhesive and filler is coated, and then secondary processing is carried out. The pomegranate pattern on the plate adds exotic flavor. There are two exquisite glass relic bottles in the lower room of Famen Temple underground stupa, which are placed on the gold coffin, the silver coffin and the copper lotus seat in Shi Bao's account. They are green and transparent, with thin necks and bulging bellies, and the walls are as thin as paper, and the relics are packed in bottles.
Famen Temple Tang Pankou thin neck applique yellow glass Pankou thin neck plastic bottle, using applique method, sticking silk blow molding, processing and molding. The bottle is 21.3cm high, 4.7cm in diameter, 0/6cm in abdominal diameter and 405g in weight. The bottle has a narrow neck, a bulging belly and a complete circle. There is a ring of ribs under the neck.
Abdominal ornamentation, roughly divided into four structures, the first is a circle of deep purple cake-like pile patterns; The second one is located in the center of the belly of the bottle, and the pale yellow glass is drawn into a fish-like pattern; The third is six pale yellow glazed milk nail cakes; The fourth weight is similar to the first weight, and it is also a deep purple cake-like pile pattern, just pulling a tail along the edge of the cake and then sticking it on the bottle wall. There is an ink note on the inner wall of the bottle, with the word 10, vaguely lined with the word "true lotus". There are traces of iron bar processing in the center of the bottom ring foot of the bottle.
The diamond-shaped straight cup of Famen Temple in Tang Dynasty adopts embossing technology, that is, die printing. A piece of molten glass is stirred up with an iron pestle, sucked into small bubbles with an iron pipe, put into a patterned mold and then leave the mold.
After demoulding, it can also be blown to the required size as required. Then stick the bottom on the iron bar, cut the cup from the blowpipe, and further trim the cup mouth. Another example is the Tang Qing glass bottle found in Luoyang, Henan Province. The elegant glass bottle, with its religious color, seems to have infiltrated a kind of Hyunri. Some people praise the clear glass bottle like this: ethereal and noble, delicate and subtle, can suck colorful crystal, can be stunning, but instantly destroyed, can incarnate Vientiane but quiet.
In addition to Famen Temple, there is also the famous stupa of Qingshan Temple in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province. Six glazed fruits, spherical in shape, with a diameter of 2 to 3.5 cm and a thickness of 0. 1 cm, were found in the seminal chamber of the pagoda. The wall is thin, translucent and hollow. If the size is walnut, one is ivory, two are brown and three are green.
These glazed fruits are placed in two three-color plates in front of the stone carving treasure account and enshrined in Buddhist pagodas, so they are also called Anahan fruits. Anahan is a Sanskrit transliteration of Buddhist terms, and the free translation is "no return", so Anahan's fruit is "no return", which is a realm of Buddhist practice.