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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