The carving art of furniture in Ming and Qing Dynasties is a brilliant creation of China national carving art, and the carving ornaments are brilliant, which is an inseparable part of Ming and Qing furniture and a precious heritage of Chinese national culture.
In the Ming Dynasty, the art of ivory carving also reached a peak at this time, and the carving genre formed a certain scale. Judging from the works recorded and preserved in ancient books, they are mainly concentrated in Suzhou, Guangzhou, Shanghai and Beijing today. Suzhou is the economic and cultural center of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with profound traditional culture, so Suzhou ivory carving art has always been full of rich cultural atmosphere, and the overall style is elegant and mellow. Artists are good at using hidden techniques to display their skills on the surface of their hidden adaptation, with vivid images, distant artistic conception and proper layout, giving people a sense of tranquility. Judging from the existing works, some relatively small pieces of Four Treasures of the Study are the main carving objects. In the choice of theme, some famous paintings and calligraphy works are used as carving powder. The carving style of landscape painting is similar to the four styles of Wumen, but the carving style of flower-and-bird painting is very close to that of cloud.
Micro-carving in Qing Dynasty played an important role in the history of ivory carving, and a large number of famous micro-carving masters emerged.
Mausoleum sculptures and religious sculptures in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially those made under the direct control of the imperial government, are large in scale, expensive in materials, fine in production and more exquisite in stone carving technology. For example, the Ming Tombs are typical representatives. Buddhist sculptures are created by artistic imagination and are very attractive to the masses.