Chinese Bronze & Brass Ware

1. Chinese Bronze & Brass Ware Grace Chau

2. 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. +

3. 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

4. The characteristics • Animal pattern • Plants pattern • Food vessel • Bronze Inscriptions • Wine vessel • Wine vessel • Water vessel • Weapons and others

5. History of Ancient Chinese bronze First stage Zenith stage Developing stage Renewal stage Transition stage

6. Classification of Bronzes • Food Vessels • Wine Vessels • Water Vessels • Weapons and Others

7. Food vessel Li Ding Yan Gui Xu Dou

8. Wine vessel Jia Gu Zhi Hu Jue Zun You Pou Gong

9. Water Vessel He Pan Yi Jian

10. Weapons and others Zhong Sword Nao Yue Bronze Pillow Sheng Drum

11. Bronze mirror

12. 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.

13. Chinese bronze inscriptions • Events, family traditions • bronze, bones or tortoise shells

14. 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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