Scientific Research on Ancient Asian Metallurgy
Proceedings of the Fifth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art
Publisher: Archetype Publications with the Freer Gallery of Art
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages
ISBN: 978-1-904982-72-2
Contents
Reflections On R.J. Gettens And The Technical Study Of Chinese Bronzes
A Chemist Under a Spell: Rutherford John Getten’s Early Encounters with Chinese Bronzes
Francesca G. Bewer
The Making of Volume 2 of the Freer Chinese Bronze Book
W.T. Chase
Theories and Observations: Still Looking at the Freer Bronzes
Robert Bagley
Chinese Bronzes
Recent Research on Early Bronze Metallurgy in Northwest China
MEI Jianjum, XU Jianwei, CHEN Kunlong, SHEN lu, and WANG Hui
Recent Discoveries Concerning Metallurgy in Bronze Age Yunnan
JIN Zhengyao, LI Gong, WANG Haigang, TIAN Jianhua, YAN Lifeng, and JIANG Zhilong
Some Decorative Techniques and Corrosion and Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the Cotsen Collection
David A. SCOTT
Technical Studies of the Three Gui Vessels of the Early Western Zhou Period in the British Museum Colleciton
WANG Quanyu
An Enlightened Journey: Transitions in Casting of Chinese Buddhist Images
Donna STRAHAN
Southeast Asian Bronzes
Looking East: The Coming of Tin Bronzes in the Context of Bronze Age Trans-Eurasian Exchange—An Overview
Vincent C. PIGOTT
The High-Tin Bronzes of Thailand
Ian GLOVER and Anna BENNETT
A Flux that Binds? The Southeast Asian Lead Isotope Project
Thomas Oliver PRYCE
Khmer Bronze Metallurgy during the Angkorian Period (Twelfth to Thirteenth Centuries): Technical Investigation of a New Selected Corpus of Artifacts from the National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh
Brice VINCENT, David BOURGARIT, and Paul JETT
Casting of Ancient Drums in North Vietnam
TRINH Sinh
West Asian Copper Alloys
Tin Millenia of Metallurg in Western Asia
Paul T. CRADDOCK
Copper-Zinc Alloys at Nuzi: Dilemmas from an Early Excavation
Katherine EREMIN, Susanna KIRK, Andrew SHORTLAND, and Megan RICHTERS
Reconstructing Ancient Technologies: Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Caucuses: Insight through Recent Discoveries at Mentesh-Tepe, Azerbaijan
Antoine COURCIER, Bertille LYONNET and Farhad GULIYEV
The Casting Techniques of Antique South Arabian Large Bronze Statues
Benoît MILLE
Medieval Islamic Copper Alloys
Susan LA NIECE, Rachel WARD, Duncan HOOK, and Paul CRADDOCK
