Recasting the past : the art of Chinese bronzes, 1100-1900 /

"Chinese bronzes made from the 12th to the 19th century are an important but often overlooked category of Chinese art. In ancient China, bronze vessels were emblems of ritual and power. A millennium later, in the period from 1100 to 1900, such vessels were rediscovered as embodiments of a long-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Lu, Pengliang (Author, Curator)
Corporate Authors:	Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (hosting institution,), Shanghai bo wu guan (hosting institution.)
Other Authors:	Ma, Clara (Contributor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]
Subjects:	Bronzes, Chinese > Exhibitions. Bronzes chinois > Expositions. Bronzes, Chinese. exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Catalogues d'exposition.

Table of Contents:

Directors' foreword
Acknowledgments
Lenders to the exhibition
Chronology of dynastic China
Note to the reader
Introduction
Reconstructing ancient rites : Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing ritual bronzes
Plates
Tracing a stylistic evolution : southern Song to early Ming archaistic bronzes
Plates
Establishing new standards : Ming bronze transformations
Plates
Living with bronzes : Ming-Qing literati taste
Plates
Harmonizing with antiquity : archaistic bronzes of the Qing dynasty
Plates
Works in the plates
/ compiled by Clara Ma
Notes
Index
Photography credits