Shang Ritual Bronzes in The National Palace Museum Collection
Taiwan: National Palace Museum, 1998. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Deep maroon dj with color illus. and red/gold lettering. 606 pp. Hundreds of color illustrations. VG clean and tight but with corners bumped; dj tight and clean but with some rubbing and with light wear at top edge. Item #21436
ISBN: 9789575623333
Abstracts and some text are in English as well as Chinese, but the descriptions of the individual pieces are only in Chinese. Includes a list of figures referred to in the essay, a Shang period chronological table, and a map. The abstract and essays cover The Development of Shang Bronze Art, The Er-li-t'ou Period: Establishing Trends in Bronze Artistic Style, The Er-li-kang Period: The Emergence of the Set of Bronze Funerary Ritual Objects, Anyang: The First Zenith of Bronze Art Achievement and Its Subsequent Decline (divided into early, middle, and late Anyang periods), The Development of Regional Styles (Southwestern, Southern, Northern) , and Summary and Further Reflections. 6A massive volume loaded with illustrations.
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