红木家具术语中英文对照精选.doc

红木家具术语中英文对照（二） 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. 步步高 赶枨: Stepped chair stretchers. Chair stretchers which are arranged with the front one lowest, the side ones higher, and the back one highest, so that the joints do not overlap. Chinese antique furniture glossary - C 踩: Lowering the surface of the wood. General term popular among craftsmen. 草龙: Curling limbed dragon. Stylized dragon pattern in which the legs and tail turn into curls, derived from the curling tendril design. 侧脚: Splayed legs. Term borrowed from ancient architecture (where it describes the splay of pillars at the base) to describe the slight splay of furniture legs at their base. 茶几: Tea table. High table derived from the Ming incense table and popular in Qing times. 插肩榫: Inserted shoulder joint. One of the essential joints of the recessed-leg construction. The upper part of the leg is split to form two tenoned pieces; the front one is made shoulder-like so that it can be inserted into cavities in the apron. When the joint is in place the surfaces of leg and apron are flush. 铲地浮雕: Relief carving on smoothed ground. 长凳: Long bench, general term. 长方凳: Rectangular stool. 缠枝莲纹: Scrolling lotus design. 朝衣柜: Court costume cabinet. Compound wardrobe in four parts with side panels. A kind of sijiangui with panels between the doors and outer frames which make the wardrobe wide enough for court costumes to be placed inside without being folded. 插屏式座屏风: Removable-panel screen set in a stand, the p