Bronze vessels were emblems of power and ritual in ancient China, and from the 1100s-1900s, the art form was revisited by ...

Central to the ritual of Chinese political authority was the practice of elaborate feasting with the dead, and this involved magnificent bronze vessels, which are both instruments of power and ...

NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- A comprehensive collection of Chinese bronzes from the 12th to 19th centuries will be on display in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) starting Friday for a period ...

They would use music and dance, as well as food and wine served from bronze vessels. This fabulous vessel ... have been made for the tomb of an elite Chinese man, so that the horse could pull ...

Archaeologists in China have brewed distilled wine in a replica of a 2,000-year-old bronze vessel unearthed from ... according the ancient Chinese medical book Bencao Gangmu, or the Compendium ...