Food Container: One Type of Chinese bronze sculpture
Antique Chinese bronze sculpture: Owl (xiāo) you. It is commonly known as owls, nocturnal birds of prey is. Beak and claws are very sharp, two in the head in front, broad vision. Silent flight, nocturnal. As the owl special appearance and living habits, the Shang Dynasty in China it is praised as God of War is a symbol of defeat the enemy. The basic characteristics of objects this is contrary to the composition of two owl wine container body. You can find the imitation of this bronze sculptureon our website. Wine container wine could have been filled, but when the pieces unearthed owl wine container, stored inside a jade. These Yu Jue (júe summary), jade is unearthed in the Juan inside.
This bronze sculptureis called li, a food container. Widespread use of Neolithic pottery Ge. Ge Shang Dynasty bronze first appeared in the early, big mouth, bag-shaped abdomen, breasts put together like a three cows. The next three short conical foot. The main function of the abdominal pocket in order to expand the area by the fire, cook food quickly, but after the late Shang Dynasty, bag-shaped abdomen gradually degenerate, and most have beautiful bronze Ge pattern, not in the heat and simmer, when the porridge Sheng device.
After the mid-Western Zhou, china bronze sculptureli was very popular. Ge of a group of bronze shape, size, decoration, inscriptions, basically the same. The occasion of the Spring and Autumn, Ge and many more even mix, with the tomb of buried and columns Ding, Ding plays to accompany the role. Often, the types like this bronze sculpturewere found in groups. To the late Warring States Period, bronze ceremonial vessels and life begins Ge Appliances ranks disappeared. The device belly full title for the three sheep, the body decoration and seamless, elegant and chic.
This bronze sculptureis formed based on the Neolithic pottery. Henan Province, Yan (yǎn eyes) division Erlitou site, after the various dynasties, has been in use to the Han Dynasty as well as the Wei, Jin, is the bronze used in the longest time. It is the earliest discovered chinese bronze sculptureof the late Xia Dynasty. Ding is the main ritual bronze tableware, in the ancient society, use it to clear hierarchy, not up and down is a symbol of national power and rights, to the amount indicated by using the user’s identity, such as the emperor Jiuding. Fang Ding, Yuan Ding Ding is the basic shape.
Ding Kui Dragon in 1981 in Xiangtan County, Castle Bridge High Tuncun unearthed. Semi-cylindrical hoof feet, with the main lines by the Kui Dragon vortex pattern formed. Unlike the Shang, the decorative patterns on the bronze sculpture of the Zhou are standing out in the use of bird patterns. Kui Shang and Zhou Bronze Dragon is the most common decoration is actually the performance side of the plane image of the dragon. Chinese Dragon is an ancient totem, there is a comprehensive reflection of the Bronze and forms, shape each one, and there are complex combinations, in the back of the exhibits, we can see the other shape.
Dagon head he is a piece of china bronze sculpture popular in the early Shang Dynasty and the late Shang Dynasty Western Zhou Dynasty. A cocktail and water containers. And wine combination, the concentration of alcohol used to reconcile watered; and plate combination, from the washing effect. Cover objects to catch this hand and the first flow is a combination of pig dragon decoration, pig was the result of the bronzes, with its implication of the deep cultural connotation of the body are inseparable. Now, more and more people prefer the imitations of bronze sculptureas presents. The pig is one of the earliest human domestication of livestock, in the currency does not appear before it in the land of many tribes had become a symbol of wealth. This reflects the working people of the pig was the worship.
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