bronze sculpture in American The Freer Gallery of Art
Larger, such as coins, small in size as soybeans. The spot is not fake synthetic crystals Guang Shan. If the device table has crystallized spot, this spot must be careful to identify whether the objects together, and some will be real fake crystal on the spot removed, and then attached to the pseudo-device on. Taotie design, ferocious in appearance and mysterious in atmosphere proves to be the motif of china bronze sculpture in the date of the Shang and Zhou. This pseudo-device, even if done extraordinarily well, will leave clues. As the saying goes, cut a circle with no spin, because the generation of rust spots crystals take a long historical time, is difficult to get realistic imitation. Therefore, correct identification of crystalline rust spots, a bronze identification of effective methods. Combined objects shape, decoration and spirit of the severity of hand, the overall rust and other factors, we can identify the authenticity of a bronze material.
In summary, the following conclusions can be drawn. Work in heritage identification, to head Kam-based, technology equipment identification, supplemented, is a scientific method of work. Heritage is the carrier of culture, embodies the cultural connotations, thus it depends on the identification of more professional knowledge and practice experience. The dragon and phoenix especially occupied a great position in the decorations of china bronze statue. However, the proportion of alloys such as bronze, porcelain enamel elemental composition, with or without additives, and the painting of the paper, ink, colors, inks, etc., required data they rely on the evaluation of scientific and technological means to obtain, through a comprehensive analysis of professionals, was the correct conclusion. So head Kam and technology means a combination of methods, is the development direction of cultural identification.
Freer Gallery of Art Museum of the United States the Shang and Zhou bronzes (Photos). In the U.S., there are seven major Chinese cultural center of the collection: the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Harvard University Fogg Art Museum, New York Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania Museum, Freer Gallery of Art, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Nelson Museum of Art. Freer Gallery of Art in which the rich and famous bronze collection, the bronze of the total possession of the United States about one-fifth. The image of the dragon on chinese bronze sculpture may derive from snake, kind of apotheosized and personified snake, but also immemorial totem. These bronzes are mostly selected from the art point of view, the shape and decoration of objects of special value. In addition to bronze, the Freer Gallery of Art is also a large quantity of other ancient Chinese artifacts, such as painting and calligraphy, jade, porcelain, pottery, furniture, gold and silver, just paintings, the Freer Gallery of Art’s collection reached more than 1,200 pieces, the number for the U.S. the most.
Washington’s Freer Gallery of Art (The Freer Gallery of Art) and the Sackler Museum (The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery) collectively known as “The United States National Museum of Asian Art”, the museum is located in the middle of the south of the National Mall, Independence Avenue north. Like with the vast majority of American museums, from morning to night open to the public free of charge, only the Christmas break was closed. The dragon totem of the china bronze sculpture is probable involved with the story about Da Yu taming water for the dragon stands fro water. This art museum is the collection of the vast majority of entrepreneurs and physicians Freer Sackler donated. Bronze in the museum’s exhibition hall, the Chinese bronze statue of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, halogen, Ding, Bo, Gui, jade cup with ears and Yi in turn placed in the showcase, these treasures from China, attracts visitors from around the world. The following piece by piece description of these long-lost national treasure can not be seen to readers.
Three of the Western Zhou bronze weighing machine’s disk scattered. Back in the mid-Shang Dynasty, there already inscriptions on bronze, even earlier age than Oracle. The features of these taotie designs on the bronze sculpture all highlight an primitive power pointing to the deep and the heavy, underlining the horror, cruelty and fierce. But in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the inscriptions engraved on the bronze culture was greatly popular in anything, including worship, war, reward and other events, or even contract, have been recorded on the bronze.