Bronzes In The Hellstr M Collection

"This survey covers a group of 28 inscribed bronze ritual vessels and bells. It has been designed to demonstrate aspects of the current tendency in chin-shih-hsueh ("metal-stone-studies") towards interdisciplinary approaches. Emphases have been placed upon technical and palaeographic issues." "Barnard has long sought to explore the potential of up-to-date methods of research when applied in these fields. He has demonstrated here, in greater detail than was attempted in his earlier publications, the urgent need for an appreciably stricter disciplinary approach to the archaeological data." "In the course of travel and research in Europe, Mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA over a period of a decade or so, the occasional discovery of one or more new vessels to be added to the ever-growing Liang Ch'i series has meant a continual revision of the survey. And from time to time, valuable data deriving from radiography and general laboratory examination, along with direct access to nearly all of the 28 bronzes, has led towards a better appreciation of the various casting features which hitherto have been but poorly understood. Thus amongst other details relating to the ancient casting procedures, improvements in the reconstructions of the mould-assemblies in which the Liang Ch'i vessels - kuei, ting, li-ting, hsu, and chung - were cast have resulted."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved