The phrase “Chinese Bronze” is, for most, synonymous with the austere vessels used in ancient state rituals or ancestor ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed from ... according the ancient Chinese medical book Bencao Gangmu, or the Compendium ...

Central to the ritual of Chinese political authority was the practice of elaborate feasting with the dead, and this involved magnificent bronze vessels, which are both instruments of power and ...

A group of private collectors from China’s Hunan Province bought the famed “Min” Fanglei, a massive bronze ritual vessel that dates ... the most important Chinese archaic bronzes ever ...

Exquisite bronze artifacts ... for the creation of highly detailed and complex ritual vessels, which played a central role in Chinese ceremonial and political life, she adds.

exemplified by bronze vessels. She wondered why the Chinese were so obsessed with this particular type of object, but not gold or gems. Breaking it down step by step, what stands out to Rawson is ...

Chinese Zhou ritual vessel (made around 1050 BC). Bronze gui, found in western China. How often do you dine with the dead? It may seem a strange question, but if you're Chinese it may not be quite ...

"One of the most distinctive features of Chinese bronze craftsmanship is the use of piece-mold casting. Unlike Western ...

[Photo provided by Jiang Dong/China Daily] Exquisite bronze artifacts ... of highly detailed and complex ritual vessels, which played a central role in Chinese ceremonial and political life ...