bronze sculpture in the Shape of Owl
Bronze owl respect, control through high 21.6 cm. Device for the owl shape, also known as owl, a section for birds, head, mouth, short and curved. That’s why it’s hardly to discover a grave of Qin with more than three bronze sculpture from the late Warring States. This device produced long, thin body, small head to head for cover, the face is not significant, disc two prominent eyes were decorated with large, hemispherical form pupil raised, large and sharp hook-type one’s nose and mouth, stretched out two small ears on both sides, after the first sheet corners, lower part of the decoration around the squamous feathery pattern. And common respect there is differences.
The body straight neck and neck squamous decorative feather pattern two weeks, but one to shame cover decoration. Reform can be implemented is related to the vulnerable basis of Chou bronze statue as well. Chest and abdomen decorated cow first pattern, the upper part of the cow, the lower similar to the cicada patterns, as Kuilong horn-shaped, more strange. Formed under the wings of a dragon circling, embossed dragon head, decorated with dragon scales, decorated with incised Kui-wing bottom pattern, the species are small Yunlei Wen Reclamation.
Ground control to tail, rolled up on both sides of the tail. Decoration for two feet of feet, feet into a boot-shaped ornaments, decorated with cloud, the front tilt. Arrived to two feet for control of the two previous columns, with the tail into the three pillars. Cleveland Museum of Art possession of the United States now. Also in the United States, Yale University Art Museum is also in possession of an owl statue high 20.7 cm. The same shape with the previous device, like a group, but with slight differences in ornamentation. In Shang and Zhou Dynasty, chinese bronze were crucial equipments to demonstrate the noble and the base and distinguish the classes. If two devices placed together, form is more imposing and majestic, interesting impulsive, demonstrating the owl as birds of prey and the eyes of advocates of the Shang dynasty of the mighty God of War image.
Chinese language scene period, the bronze mirror production with socio-economic rise of the bronze mirror patterns appear renovation, Lichtung crisp, great progress of the situation. At this point the mirror diameter of amplification, the mirror wall towards honest, wide mirror edge, the side decoration slightly protruding spherical mirror button to replace the bridge-shaped button Qin, the body appears striped mirror inscriptions. In ancient china, the china bronze sculpture is kind of the symbol of status and position. Shown even the arc pattern Zhao Ming Han Mirror, the mirror diameter of 11 cm, round, round button seat, Block one week a round button with convex arc, and within a week of twelve lines arc pattern with even, twice with a short-term pattern between the inscription within the definition of quality to which Zhao Ming, the light and the sun and the moon as husband and vent.
Mirror inscription is more and character, which is not a punctuation symbol in the Han Dynasty, but as foreshadowing the word used, because the and the word smooth vertical and horizontal, do not plug dispersed, neat body of the book, the beauty of a decorative character. It was just the Chou rituals that maintained the set of unwritten codes of the sculpture in bronze. Meso-like calligraphy carved in the mirror, to seal character, based on either radius, the line of official script and many more strokes, both the document intended to have the text book knife taste, is attached to seal the product of change, and the radio button than the later Eastern Han Dynasty, Wei Jinqing bronze mirror, which is typical of the mid-Han mirror.
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