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Title: Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection
Description: Taiwan, National Palace Museum, 1998. Hardcover. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering. Deep maroon dj with color illus. and red/gold lettering. 606 pp. Hundreds of color illustrations. Abstracts and some text are in English as well as Chinese, but the descriptions of the individual pieces are only in Chinese. Includes a list of figures referred to in the essay, a Shang period chronological table, and a map. The abstract and essays cover The Development of Shang Bronze Art, The Er-li-t'ou Period: Establishing Trends in Bronze Artistic Style, The Er-li-kang Period: The Emergence of the Set of Bronze Funerary Ritual Objects, Anyang: The First Zenith of Bronze Art Achievement and Its Subsequent Decline (divided into early, middle, and late Anyang periods), The Development of Regional Styles (Southwestern, Southern, Northern) , and Summary and Further Reflections. 6A massive volume loaded with illustrations. VG clean and tight but with corners bumped; dj tight and clean but with some rubbing and with light wear at top edge.

Keywords: Asian Art ; National Palace Museum - Bronzes ; ; Collections - Asian Art


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