Sanxingduren, Sanxingdui culture, fengshui items

Material: Copper zinc alloy

Other name: Bronze ware,Bronze ware carving,Bronze craft,Bronze sculpture,Bronze figurine

• We adopt the traditional lost-wax method to cast, so our bronze wares bear high artistic value after exquisitely made. Rich in shapes and categories, a series of products, such as Ding, Jue, bronze lion and elephant are imitated or prorogued.
• Those bronze wares can not only used as decorations for home, company and organization, but also can be regarded as business gifts.
• Besides its exquisite making and various functions, bronze wares bare a long history in China. They are used by emperors and high-ranking people for daily life in different Dynasties, especially in Shang and Western Zhou Dynasties.
• Please contact us without hesitation to get the hand making bronze wares!
• Customs are always the first no matter where they come from!

Most of our imitation antique bronze items that the weight is over 1 kilogram, please read the specification of each item carefully and contact our staff to adjust the transportation fee.

As all the bronze ware imitations are hollow, please take the weight as reference, we estimated the weight for items in order to work out the transportation fee, the actual weight of each item shall according to the object as the standard. Besides, bronze ware artworks is different from gold or jewelry, the deviation may be occured on bronze items. The bronzes are pursued the entire feeling, not the details, so, if you are very care about the perfection of each product, please take a consideration before you place an order.

About Bronze Ware

Bronze is the earliest of all alloys produced by the human race. In China, the earliest bronze ware were produced in the late period of the primitive society, and those produced during the Shang-Zhou period, in large quantities with the production techniques rated as better than ever before, highlight the social estate system practiced at the time. Bronze ware used before the Qin-Han period fall into three categories - those used at sacrificial ceremonies held by the state and aristocratic families, those for daily use by aristocrats and those used as funerary objects. Bronze articles for practical use include weapons, musical instruments, cooking utensils, and food, wine and water containers, as well as ornamental articles on horse chariots.

Bronze weapons unearthed so far are mostly swords, axes, axe-spears and dagger-axes. Bells in complete sets known as bianzhong and large bells known as bo are the most typical bronze musical instruments played at sacrificial ceremonies and on other important occasions. Tripods and quadripods with hollow legs (li), which originated from prehistory cooking utensils, were used to boil whole animal carcasses for sacrificial ceremonies and feasting. Rules based on the social estate system were strictly followed with regard to the use of bronze ware. Nine tripods and eight food containers known as gui were allowed on occasions presided over by the "Son of Heaven", the supreme ruler of a state. Aristocrats immediately below the Son of Heaven in rank may use seven tripods and six guis or five tripods and four guis. In short, the number of bronze containers decreased progressively according to the degrading ranks of the users. There were also stringent rules on the size and weight of the utensils for users of each rank. Wine sets are in greater variety than any other kind of bronze ware we have found so far - possibly because people of the Shang-Zhou period were fond of drinking wine. The earliest bronze wine sets include jue (wine vessel with three legs and a loop handle), jia (round-mouthed wine vessel with three legs) and hu (squaremouthed wine containers). Many wine containers take the shape of birds or animals.

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