National Treasure – Bronze sculpture
Mainly referring to the Qin Dynasty bronze copper-tin alloy produced artifacts, including a cooking device, food, wine, water heaters, musical instruments, traveling accessories, mirrors, hook,, tools and measuring instruments, etc. Popular in the late Neolithic to the Han Dynasty, the most beautiful objects in the Shang and Zhou. Initially there is the small tools or accessories.
The beginning of the summer generation of bronze sculpture . Commercial medium, bronze varieties have been very rich, and the emergence of the inscriptions and fine patterns. Late to early Western Zhou business is the development of bronze.
Heyday-type variety, vigorous dignified, inscriptions gradually lengthened, patterns harassment Wealthy. Subsequently, the matrix began to thin china sculpture in bronze, decoration gradually simplified. The late Spring and Autumn Warring States period, due to promote the use of iron, copper tools less and less. Qin and Han dynasties, porcelain and lacquerware along with access to daily life, reduced copper container species, simply decorated, mostly plain, thin matrix and more.
Ancient chinese bronze, is our ancestor’s great contribution to human material, although archaeological data from the current point of view, the emergence of China’s bronze, later than some other parts of the world, but on the scale of the use of bronze casting process , plastic arts and variety, no place in the world of ancient Chinese bronzes and bronze can be compared. This is the ancient Chinese bronzes in the world, occupies a unique position in art history and has caused widespread attention to one of the reasons.
Bronze color made out of real time is very beautiful, gold-like khaki, because rust was buried in the earth a little bit into the green. Since china bronze sculpture is entirely hand-made so no two are exactly the same, every piece is unique, unparalleled.
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