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Artisans' Knowledge on Bronze Making in Ancient China: Cross Examination of the Casting Moulds of the Shang Dynasty /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Artisans' Knowledge on Bronze Making in Ancient China: Cross Examination of the Casting Moulds of the Shang Dynasty // Wen Yin Elaine Cheng.
Author:	Cheng, Wen Yin Elaine,
Description:	1 electronic resource (335 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-05B.
Subject:	Ancient history. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30695844
ISBN:	9798342740272

Artisans' Knowledge on Bronze Making in Ancient China: Cross Examination of the Casting Moulds of the Shang Dynasty /
Cheng, Wen Yin Elaine,

Artisans' Knowledge on Bronze Making in Ancient China: Cross Examination of the Casting Moulds of the Shang Dynasty /Wen Yin Elaine Cheng. - 1 electronic resource (335 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-05, Section: B.

This dissertation examines the production of bronze casting vessels by studying the bronze casting moulds produced and used by bronze artisans. Since its discovery, Chinese bronze vessel production has captivated archaeologists' interest and ongoing research. Most of the focus was on the vessels and how the elites used these vessels to represent power and prestige, but that was only half of the story of the past involving bronze vessel production. More recent research has focused on the casting moulds used to produce the bronze vessels and looking at them as their artifacts. We were missing a crucial part of the past involving the artisans' choices in making the vessels, knowledge, and organization by combining the data collected through hand specimen, petrographic, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis of the three bronze vessel casting moulds housed at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM).The result from this dissertation indicated a highly specialized group of artisans who worked in three of the main foundry sites and supplied their casting moulds to the other foundries of Anyang. From the similarities and differences between the sequence of production, the Anyang mould artisans shared raw material resources and firing techniques within their specialization, while two distinct groups formed the casting moulds. Although there were two different production methods, the production method stayed consistent within the two groups with little to no experimentation within the production sequence. The lack of experimentation further supports the production being a highly specialized profession with the knowledge held by the bronze casting mould artisans. The consistency in production also suggests that the artisans passed down their knowledge with verbal and hands on instructions to ensure the exact method of production continued during the Anyang occupation.

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