Title Shanghai Museum : Ancient Chinese Bronze Gallery.
Author Shanghai Museum
Published Shanghai : Shanghai Museum, 1996
Detail 52 p. : ill. ; 28.5 cm
Abstract Epitomizing China's ancient civilization and rich culture heritage, bronze artifacts have been treasured items ever since the time of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. Ritual bronzes served as ceremonial offerings to ancestors, as banquet utensils, and occasionally as formal gifts. Members of China's nobility possessed sets of bronzes, the sizes and types of which conveyed the social status of their owners
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