The aesthetic connotations of the marble-inlay in the Qing-style furniture

Abstract

The article expatiates the use of marble has influenced the aesthetic characters of the Qing-style furniture through appreciation and aesthetic analysis of the marble-inlaid Qing-style furniture. Its aesthetic idiosyncrasies combi ned with Taoist inherency and abstract art in which literati reposed their life ideals have, to a certain degree, brought about the transcendence ofreality, the weakening ofideological utilitarian purposes and the retainment of pure aesthetic orientation.