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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 311035

Metalworking in bronze age China
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126578
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126675
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127451
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127452
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320127458
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320129870
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133170
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330134301
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  alternate name: Precision casting--China--History
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  alternate name: Bronzes, Chinese
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  alternate name: Bronzes, Chinese--To 221 B.C.
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  alternate name: Bronze founding--Technological innovations--China--History
abstract: "This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images, this book provides a study on the "norms," which are seldom questioned. By examining the reasons why Chinese founders often chose not to use the lost-wax process they had clearly mastered, the book refutes the idea that lost-wax technology is the only "right way" to cast bronzes. This study demonstrates that a "norm" is in many ways an illusion that twists our comprehension of art, technology, civilization, and history"--
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310209875
language: eng
subject of: Statement
  additional type: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300195187
  text: What is lost-wax casting? -- Metalworking in Bronze age China -- Was lost-wax casting used in Bronze age China? -- Further confirmed lost-wax castings I: the Xiasi Jin -- Further confirmed lost-wax castings II: certain "diatrete" vessels and mirrors -- Further confirmed lost-wax castings III: objects with "interpenetrating" openwork appendages -- Design as the driving force -- The origin of the lost-wax technique in Bronze age China -- Coda: additional issues and comments.
temporal coverage: Tot 221 B.C.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301311035
type: CreativeWork