CHINESE BRONZE & BRASS WARE
Grace Chau
MATERIAL OF CHINESE BRONZE & BRASS WARE
Bronze is an alloy of copper and a variety of other
elements such as tin, metals, and lead. Bronze ware
can be found in many ancient civilizations. Copper
by itself, is too soft to make tools of, and tin is too
brittle it breaks too easily. But if you mix a little tin
in the copper, it becomes bronze, which is much
harder and at the same time less brittle. +
HISTORY OF CHINESE BRONZE
Bronzes have been cast in China for about 3,700
years.
1500–300 BC, roughly the Bronze Age in China.
Ritual Bronze vessels
THE CHARACTERISTICS
Animal pattern
Plants pattern
Food vessel
Bronze Inscriptions
Wine vessel
Wine vessel
Water vessel
Weapons and others
HISTORY OF ANCIENT CHINESE BRONZE
First stage
Developing stage
Zenith stage
Transition stage
Renewal stage
CLASSIFICATION OF BRONZES
Food Vessels
Wine Vessels
Water Vessels
Weapons and Others
FOOD VESSEL
Ding Li Yan
Gui
Xu Dou
WINE VESSEL
Jue Jia Gu Zhi
Hu
You
Zun Pou Gong
WATER VESSEL
Pan
Yi
He
Jian
WEAPONS AND OTHERS
Sword
Yue Nao
Zhong
Drum
Bronze Pillow
Sheng
BRONZE MIRROR
BRONZE CHIME-BELLS
The chime – bells, cast with bronze, is a instrument in ancient China. It consisted of oval bells in different size arranged to the order of the pitch, which are hung on a huge bell cot. Different tones can be produced when beating the bells with wood hammer and a long stick, and beautiful music can be performed when beating to the tune.
CHINESE BRONZE INSCRIPTIONS
- Events, family traditions- bronze, bones or tortoise
shells
SIMUWU DING 司母戊鼎
Simuwu ding ( 司母戊鼎 ) is the heaviest ancient bronze ware in the world by now, which is named for the three Chinese characters “Si Mu Wu” carved on the belly of the vessel. With a height of 133mm and a weight of 833kg.
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