Archaic Chinese bronzes megathread:

I have been wanting to do a twitter thread on this particular passion of mine for a while but wasn't quite sure how to start (and it will be a long time before I finish in any way), so let's just begin...

Some basic facts about ancient Chinese bronze:
-A history stretching back almost 4000 years
-Some of the most beautiful, technically skilled, & stylistically unique ancient objects on the globe
-Forgeries have been made for at least 2000 years now

The thing that makes ancient Chinese bronze so unique is how they made it: while every other civilization invented the lost was process, China did things differently.

The piece-mold casting method utilised several carved terracotta moulds rather than lost wax process.

Sorry. Twitter broke after I spent and hour writing this thread, afterwards losing it. I will resume later...