On the Appraisal of Antique Bronze Sculpture

LI Huai Tong said, bronze mirrors have cancer rust, bronze powder with the same rust. This rust occurred in the Han and Tang bronze mirror, higher levels of tin are good quality bronze mirror. The Ming and Qing bronze mirror, then little or no powdery rust from occurring, because this period a small amount of tin bronze mirror, not the bronze. The patterns on the bronze sculpture are uneven and rugged and well-proportioned. This shows that, in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties bronzes and Han and Tang bronze mirrors powdery rust occurs because these higher levels of tin in bronze, the tin in a certain storage ring mirror, because the temperature is too low, internal objects can be transformed into gray tin tin due.

Occurrence of powdery rust bronze mirror has a strange phenomenon, it is not starting from bronze mirror surface rust, but from the expansion of the mirror body, so that the mirror surface fission, and then gradually damage, pink and yellow rust, into a powder-like, unlike the the normal rust, erythema green rust, long in the objects surface. This kind of bronze statue has a three-dimensional aesthetic value. This shows that the incidence of powdery rust is not in the surface of the tin oxide bronze mirror, but mirrors the body's internal molecular tin a qualitative change.

Qin Dynasty copper (62870,320.00,0.51%, right) and the Song and Yuan dynasties rust mirror bronze mirror stainless steel, are sufficient to confirm the wisdom of ancient China, they are deep-Yi copper and tin and other metal properties, then one can Bronze artistic creation handy. The tin of this property until the early twentieth century, since that technology has not developed a real understanding of the West. At the same time, it mirrors that Wu chinese bronze sculpture emphasize on the third dimension. January 17, 1912, British explorer Scott's Antarctic expedition into the other four, in their carefully prepared artifacts, actually tin filled with liquid fuel, the results of tin plague tin occurs at low temperatures, fuel spills , contaminated food, all four Donge died, and this is the famous "Scott South Pole event."

LI Huai-discovery through this once in a certain range of the exchange, it caused great concern to heritage experts, a professor at Beijing Palace Museum, said: All along, we all saved for the bronze to avoid the sun low temperature, due to find the reason, waste each year due to rust were a few ancient china bronze sculpture. LI Huai-through of this discovery will greatly reduce the scrap rate of ancient Chinese bronzes, ancient Chinese bronzes for the rescue has important practical significance. To make the body able to reproduce the true and complete, we will build it up and complete the repair, so as to fully reflect its value and the true art of reflect its extraordinary charm.

Four Hills gold pattern Warring States bronze mirror repair. In 1998, the Luoyang Museum in preparation for "Luoyang Cultural Relics Exhibition", by the Heritage Task Force transferred to Luoyang City, a number of bronze mirrors. Decorative patterns of the china bronze sculpture present the sense of symmetry. One side of the Warring States period gold "mountain" character pattern bronze mirror, shape and decoration are extremely rare in the Luoyang region, quite ornamental and research value. However, long buried, unearthed when the mirror is 51 residues. One of the biggest pieces 10 cm long, 5 cm wide. Only the smallest pieces 1 cm long. As the damaged seriously, this lens has been unable to properly display, but also seriously affected the work of its research and care.