The Epic Of the China Bronze
Produced by this method is not complicated bronze, remain in the courtyard of health account, a wok, plaster, melting Tong Lu, paraffin is the main tool for making bronze. Accounted for the wife to stay with Kang’s brother, this is only three farmers in the village smoke stream of a typical home workshop. bronze sculpture in different periods represent different standard of mining and smelting. Bronze in the streets of the village stream smoke, such as health accounted for three of the workshop stay is relatively small, usually four or five individuals in the family workshop, some of the larger family workshops still have to hire a few workers. Smoke stream in the village, though almost every household can make bronze out their own independent, but because each of the skills and tools vary, so always produced high and low levels.
Bronze beautiful styling wax is the key to whether or not, have an initial production of the wax mold of the original model, is usually modeled on the ancient bronze look, artificially carved out of the paraffin. On the ground, and some farmers that they can not make the required original model, it will have such carving skills to other farmers to buy, according to the different sizes, ranging from several hundred dollars to the price of health is doing a total stay bronze, The original wax is bought from other farmers hands. Not to mention the economic value of bronze statue. Smoke stream in the village, although there are some special wax living by selling the original people, but more to make their own households, or wax. This is because antique bronze with many years of production history of the village stream smoke, many people have such a craft, and beautifully crafted wax models for the production of their own home workshop, not sold to the public, which makes their production more bronze market competitiveness.
Antique bronze rust is doing the most difficult to master the technology, and most can show the level of each process technology. Ltd, Luoyang Zhou Ding of Zhou Changhai antique craft their own plant on hold chemical raw materials needed to make rust formula, factory workers, not in the hands of a dozen, they only know how to cast bronze art. Zhou Changhai only told part of his nephew formula, so that when their busy time to have a helper, of course, this recipe will not fall on the paper, there is only Zhou Changhai mind. The main factors affecting the price of chinese bronze sculpture are as follows. Similarly, Zhao Junying home, process communication only limited to a small range of relatives. Zhao’s large-scale workshops, joining a long time, the family hired a few workers with a total of a dozen people to make bronze.
Because his father very early in the production of bronze, twenty years worked out a Many production craft, Zhao Junying small monasteries, but also more familiar process of bronze. This china bronze sculpture was put down in the catalogues known as the Xiqing gujian written by Jin Shiming. Their families through the purchase of books, some of bronze, see one of the more distinctive styling, the conduct of imitation, not only in external form, but also involve more complex technologies such as silver inlay, also worked out slowly, with this craft , the product is relatively unique, selling price is relatively high. Since married after the craft passed husband Zhao, Zhao Junying side of the street and her husband also opened a sales Men Lianfang, their parents are mainly manufacturing bronze, Zhaojun Ying and her husband is responsible for sales.