Antique bronze sculpture providers to identify

Previously, antique bronze sculpture providers to identify, by sight, hand touch, hear, nose sniffing, licking tongue, even now, experts using advanced scientific instruments, and even lasers. As a general lover, to identify a genuine bronze, in the end where to start it?

First, look rusty

After several thousand years bronze spread so far there are basically three ways: buried, falling water, handed down. Experts say: "(Green) Bronze falling water years, such as melons are green, and shiny jade; less than thousand years, although the green and not Ying; not buried water handed bronze, the color purple brown, and with vermilion spots, and even raised its spots. "Generally speaking, the most popular so far unearthed bronze, copper difference and because parts of soil, water quality differences, buried bronze rust are not the same, common with green rust , rust red, blue, rust, purple embroidery. Get a bronze, with the first sight, if the rust-colored body with one device, the same depth, a solid uniform, shiny, natural, for the naturally occurring rust. If the rust-colored objects floating above the green and not Ying, skin rust, but not moist, glare, is a pseudo-rust; then do further validation, rub your hands touch objects, sniffing hand, fixed copper smell, because smell Millennium bronze is a copper-free; can also be washed with hot alkali, pseudo-rust will fall off if the scrub it down, and then roasted to fall off; or with tongue licking, if lo salt is pseudo-rust.

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Weigh hand, if too light or too heavy will attract attention, of course, this depends on experience. It may also be hand percussion kind, listen to their sound, if it may sound fine and crisp; if the sound muddy, issued a "hum" sound, you need to be vigilant.

Third, the identified patterns, and the inscription

This is a key to identify the authenticity of bronze statue, bronze pattern Xia simple; Shang pattern of harassment is gorgeous, and more flower over the body; general and in consultation with the Western Zhou Dynasty, but later tend to naive; the Spring and Autumn pattern is fresh and lively, full of breath of life, with emphasis on practical Han, patterns, and the previous generation and not less fine. In addition, decoration patterns from different times to infer changes in the content, determine. As for the inscription, mainly from its fonts to be identified. Shang regular font, generous gesture Emotion, beautiful and easy, elegant and beautiful than the latter part of the body wave spine; the early Zhou Dynasty followed the wave spine body; spring, when the book has body fat and lean body body, as well as the shape of tadpoles, "Li fight Man" , and the pattern of the "bird book worm"; most of the Warring States Period Bronze font is not known, but there are also cited a long drooping font vertical pen, sharp end of the "hanging seal" shape; the Qin Dynasty unified the text, General Xiao Zhuan. With this, if an when the bronzes known three generations have seen a small seal on the font, it is a joke. In addition, also according to the number of inscriptions words, content to determine.

Fourth, look at copper and device type

Identification of copper than the simple, look at the chinese bronze foot, if the brass texture, it is counterfeit; foot Ruoyi counterfeit of copper, with a hot alkaline wash can see their true colors. In addition to the device type bronze clearly remember the name, but also what to know what's cast bronze, what's the style of the bronze is cast. For example, Fang, Fang is a square container, emerged in the late Warring States Period, if its by three generations of workmanship, rust-colored system for counterfeit goods. Again Ding, Jie generations, but if the tripod is unlikely to cover three generations of items.

Identification of bronze dragon, is a tedious and difficult task, but once you have a point, look at, remember, think, or to identify true and false.