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Scientific research on ancient Asian metallurgy : proceedings of the fifth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art

Title
Scientific research on ancient Asian metallurgy : proceedings of the fifth Forbes Symposium at the Freer Gallery of Art / edited by Paul Jett, Blythe McCarthy and Janet G. Douglas.
Author
Forbes Symposium (5th : 2010 : Washington, D.C.)
Publication
  • London : Archetype Publications in association with the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2012.
  • ©2012

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Additional Authors
  • Jett, Paul
  • McCarthy, Blythe Ellen
  • Douglas, Janet G.
  • Freer Gallery of Art, publisher.
Description
xiii, 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps; 30 cm
Subject
  • Gettens, Rutherford J
  • Chase, W. T
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • To 1500
  • Metallurgy > Asia > History > To 1500 > Congresses
  • Metallurgy in art > Congresses
  • Bronzes, Chinese > Congresses
  • Bronzes > Southeast Asia > Congresses
  • Bronzes
  • Bronzes, Chinese
  • Metallurgy
  • Metallurgy in art
  • Asia
  • Southeast Asia
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
Note
  • "These proceedings record the papers presented at a symposium held at the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., in the fall of 2010."--vii.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Reflections on R. J. Gettens and the Technical Study of Chinese Bronzes -- Chemist Under a Spell: Rutherford John Gettens's Early Encounters with Chinese Bronzes / Francesca G. Bewer -- 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 / Wang Hui -- Recent Discoveries Concerning Metallurgy in Bronze Age Yunnan / Jiang Zhilong -- Some Decorative Techniques and Corrosion on Chinese Bronze Mirrors in the Cotsen Collection / David A. Scott -- Technical Studies of Three Gui Vessels of the Early Western Zhou Period in the British Museum Collection / Wang Quanyu -- Enlightened Journey: Transitions in Casting of Chinese Buddhist Images / Donna Strahan -- Southeast Asian Bronzes -- Looking East: The Coming of Tin Bronze in the Context of Bronze Age Trans-Eurasian Exchange -- An Overview / Vincent C. Pigott -- High-Tin Bronzes of Thailand / Anna Bennett -- 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 / Paul Jett -- Casting of Ancient Drums in North Vietnam / Trinh Sinh -- West Asian Copper Alloys -- Ten Millennia of Metallurgy in Western Asia / Paul T. Craddock -- Copper-Zinc Alloys at Nuzi: Dilemmas from an Early Excavation / Megan Richters -- Reconstructing Ancient Technologies: Chalcolithic Crucible Smelting at Tal-i Iblis, Iran / Lesley D. Frame -- Metallurgy during the Middle Chalcolithic Period in the Southern Caucasus: Insight through Recent Discoveries at Mentesh-Tepe, Azerbaijan / Farhad Guliyev -- Casting Techniques of Antique South Arabian Large Bronze Statues / Benoit Mille.
ISBN
  • 9781904982722
  • 1904982727
OCLC
  • ocn794671846
  • 794671846
  • SCSB-1655278
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library