Artistic Features of the bronze sculpture

Continuation of the Song Dynasty Yuan antique style, Ming and Qing era. Qing Dynasty before the Song, Yuan, Ming has been a lot of antique bronze collection within the government of the Qing. Zhang Songbin description: "Qing and Republican periods antique bronze is the second peak of the Qing Dynasty Emperor Qianlong as the revival of love and epigraphy. People then tried to saw off the large bronze sculpture, and shipped it out, but only a foot was cut. Their collection for the Interpretation of the bronze inscriptions, exegetical reading history, writing, inscriptions, so antique bronze while promoting the development of court ritual rampant counterfeit fine (a lot of porcelain are pastiche style of bronze), form the official imitation, imitation is also a popular situation. "Qing, the late and more official imitation, and some imitation also features a section at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

Since the late Qing Dynasty relics of imperialist invasion and drain once again to promote the commercialization of civil antique bronze and antique dealer's professional, this stage should be considered during the Republic to come. Antique Bronze relatively well-known so-called "Weixian made", "Xian-made", "Beijing-made", "Suzhou-made", "Henan made" this period is successively formed. Hence, they quietly buried the bronze statue. During this period the major generic business week weight control, particularly in the main pseudo-carved inscriptions. Imitation is not only rampant in the country, but also spread to other countries, is accompanied by the outflow of the real thing out together. It can be said of the late Qing and Republican civil imitation goods, almost all the antique dealer to do to lie.

"During this period of imitation goods, and some do not meet the shape and decoration the Shang and Zhou device, and some non-Fan line, gasket, I identified in several encounters during this period of imitation of bronze tripod: some rival powers have come off naturally, is the result after the solder is oxidized. Later on, the news about this china bronze sculpture leaked, the Japanese came to search. Ming has some marks engraved, and some material is brass, these features are not difficult to find in the identification of when. "Zhang Songbin said. Imitation is hard to determine the authenticity of contemporary almost the real thing.

Bronze imitation of the last boom, is from the reform and opening up began in the mid 1980s, imitation bronze is the third peak. Zhangsong Bin said, "I saw the first knife is fake Warring States currency found in doubt, the door also had to ask the researcher Shandong Provincial Museum, ancient coins expert Mr. Zhu Huo, he determined to imitate. Without any result, they offered 700,000 coins to purchase the bronze sculpture. Followed almost are not imitation, imitation is not only a big ritual, and like no one before the imitation of bronze swords, bronze mirrors any were fake. imitation goods and more, high level, any period in history are unmatched.

"Zhang Songbin said fraud in about 1995, antique copper technology has basically mastered the ancient casting Warring States Period, the Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty bronze mirror of the process method; around 2003 to replicate the basic process in line with the ancient bronze sword. The local people cleverly sent them another chinese bronze sculpture and this national treasure was stay put in China finally. Large ancient ritual of casting process has also been very few hands. Imitation of new technologies or the emergence of many collectors is hard to determine the authenticity of identification experts, have taken. Bronze art features.