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China: the enigma of the bronze man / Celadon / Jades immort - Lot 152
China: the enigma of the bronze man / Celadon / Jades immortality stones China: the enigma of the bronze man: Archaeology of Sichuan (12th-3rd century BC) 2003
In July 1986, at a place called Sanxingdui, a few kilometers from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, a chance dig revealed the most unexpected of archaeological discoveries: a dozen large bronze heads piled up in a pit. No Bronze Age site in China had previously yielded such human effigies. A month later, another dig revealed the contents of a second, even richer pit. All these objects - some 1,700 in all, including more than 50 heads and masks for both pits - had been broken and burnt before being buried. Why was this? Where did this ancient Sichuan civilization come from? How did it relate to other cultures and other periods of the Bronze Age? These are the questions that the team of international specialists working with Alain Thote attempts to answer, first by presenting the discoveries made in recent decades at Sanxingdui, Jinsha and Zhuwajie, and then by presenting the sites of the Warring Kingdoms period in Sichuan.
Celadon: Stoneware from the museums of Zhejiang province, China (2005)
For more than four centuries, the subtle pakite of celadons, their unctuous glaze with indefinable shades of "powdered green" or "secret color", has been one of the major refinements of Chinese ceramics for Europeans. This technique of glazed porcelain stoneware, patiently developed over two millennia by the ceramists of the Yue and Tongquan kilns, is featured here. Under the aegis of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum in Hangzhou, an emblematic selection of celadons from the South is presented at the Collections Baur, Musée des Arts d'Extrême-Orient, in Geneva, then at the Musée Cernuschi, Musée des Arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris.
Chinese jades: stones of immortality (1997)
Jade's translucency and hardness have always fascinated Chinese craftsmen. In archaic times, this precious material, charged with complex symbolism, was used to make prestigious objects and ritual weapons. It was reputed to make bodies rot-proof. In more recent times, its possession conferred special prestige on people of quality. This book offers an overview of this material from Neolithic times to the early 20th century.
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