Casting Experiment for a Small-Sized Bronze Statue of Buddha Dating to the Tang Dynasty

Author(s): Chun Yu; Ya Wei Dong

Year: 2019

Summary

This is an abstract from the "From Tangible Things to Intangible Ideas: The Context of Pan-Eurasian Exchange of Crops and Objects" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The four-footed base is a specific structural feature of bronze statues of Buddha in China during the fourth to ninth century BC. This feature appears to have been made using the lost wax method, but experimental methods indicate that the four-footed base was made with the sand mold casting process. This was the traditional bronze casting technology of Shang and Zhou dynasties, and its form is rooted in a kind of furniture that was popular in Han-Jin period.

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Casting Experiment for a Small-Sized Bronze Statue of Buddha Dating to the Tang Dynasty. Chun Yu, Ya Wei Dong. Presented at The 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, NM. 2019 ( tDAR id: 452398)

Spatial Coverage

min long: 70.4; min lat: 17.141 ; max long: 146.514; max lat: 53.956 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 25810