The gold and silver fine workmanship is a traditional craft of gold and silver wares which are mainly used for indoor display and appreciation, and also have utility function. With long standing, this workmanship has a history of over 3,000 years.
The making skill of Nanjing Baoqing Silver Tower is most famous in the industry, and further the municipal gold and silver fine workmanship inheritance and learning base certified by Nanjing City Bureau of Culture, Radio and News.
The handwork display items made by Baoqing Silver Tower has inherited such southern party skills as beating, lifting, knocking, pulling, welding, filing, carving, engraving, inlaying and pressing etc. which are pure and superb. As for the style, it has been mixed with the northern party skill characteristics, namely to apply the skills including wire inlaying, wire piling,wire filling and wire coiling etc.into the making of display items, so it is a typical representative of southern China real inlaid carving design workmanship that has been completely inherited and has orderly veins.
Baoqing Silver Tower handwork products have wide subjects, including the tripod shield bottle shaped furnace, the statues of figures and the Buddha, birds and animals, transport boxes, utility items, flowers, birds, fishes and insects etc., the god of longevity, the god of wealth, beautiful women, as well as lion, leopard, tiger, horse and elephant etc.
