Bronze Vessel

Product Description

Bronze Vessels -----China's bronze Age began approximately from 2100 BC, and saw its prime around 13th to 11th century BC. Spanning over nearly 2000 years, the Chinese Bronze Age had covered Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At those times, bronze, still regarded as a precious alloy, was mainly used to forge ritual ware for ceremonies paying tribute to the ancestors and expensive containers on banquets for honorable guests.

From late Shang to early west Zhou dynasty, ritual bronze vessel was at the height of power and splendor period. The various bronze vessels had imposing style, longer posy and magnificent decorative veins. It is great contribution to human's substance civilization made by our ancestor. Although the appearance of China's Ritual bronze vessel is later than some of other places, no bronze ware in other place can parallel to China's in terms of use scale, crafts, arts and variety. This is also why China's Ritual bronze vessel occupied unique position and arouses recognitions in world's art history.