www射-国产免费一级-欧美福利-亚洲成人福利-成人一区在线观看-亚州成人

US EUROPE AFRICA ASIA 中文
Culture

Relic restorer

By Zhang Kun ( China Daily ) Updated: 2012-11-15 09:56:45

Relic restorer

Step 1. [Photo/China Daily]

Relic restorer

Step 2. [Photo/China Daily]

It took a veteran antique conservator 16 years to patiently reconstruct a unique 2,000-year-old bronze bowl. Zhang Kun speaks to the man behind the tedious process.

Zhang Guangmin has spent the past 16 years on a most difficult, and costly-game of jigsaw puzzles. On Oct 18, the antique restorer finally placed the last piece of the puzzle - a 2,000-year-old giant water bowl - together.

"I was very anxious to complete it this year as our museum is celebrating its 60th anniversary," says Zhang, who has been restoring bronzes at Shanghai Museum for 37 years. "Thanks to an ultra-sound knife, I have accomplished the seemingly impossible mission," he adds, in relief.

Former museum director Ma Chengyuan (1927-2004), who was also an acclaimed scholar on bronze, had purchased the bowl with intertwining dragon motifs from Hong Kong.

"Our former director bought it even though it was seriously damaged from previous restoration attempts. It is a unique piece with a highly academic and historic importance," says Zhou Ya, curator of the bronze department of Shanghai Museum.

Named "jian", the vessel is believed to have originated either from the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC) or the Warring States Period (475-221 BC). Jian was used to store water, ice and bath water. After the Warring States Period, people stopped producing jian.

This one, with meticulous and complex dragon patterns, is larger than the other two vessels of the same shape among the museum's bronze collections, and the intertwining dragons make it more unusual. It measures 45 centimeters in height, 79 cm in diameter at its opening, with a base diameter of 39 cm.

Shanghai Museum has one of China's best collections of bronzes, thanks to the continuous efforts of generations of museum staff. "We have more than 7,000 pieces, forming a systematic lineage. Every piece is a national treasure and of great value," Zhou says.

He says there are no bronze sacrificial vessels in the auction market, because they cannot possibly have been inherited, and it is against the law to trade in these national treasures that belong to the State. But there has been private trading of these pieces for decades.

"Some businessmen would restore a piece by the most violent and rough means to gain a huge profit," Zhang says.

He has found altered patterns, chemical erosions, added inscriptions and other restoration efforts that had caused irreversible damage to treasured bronze pieces.

"You just have to pass by a piece - you don't even have to go up close - and you can feel the difference between a genuine treasure and an artificially crafted fake," he says. "It's as if the real thing can breathe, and emits a special aura."

The professional restorer makes sure that every work he does on a piece is reversible: The added parts can easily be removed in the future, when more advanced techniques are made available to restore the treasure more perfectly.

The restoration of the jian started with dissembling. All the added materials from the previous restoration efforts were removed. Then, the vessel is separated into innumerable small pieces.

Previous Page 1 2 Next Page

 
Editor's Picks
Hot words

Most Popular
 
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 国产成人精品一区二区免费视频 | a级片在线免费播放 | 波多野结衣一区在线 | 中日韩欧美一级毛片 | 99re6热视频精品免费观看 | 精品国产一区二区三区成人 | 国产日产欧产精品精品推荐小说 | 香港全黄一级毛片在线播放 | 国内精品一区二区 | 国产精品一区二区四区 | 久久精品视频在线观看 | 久久精品www | 看一级毛片 | 欧美成人性色大片在线观看 | 手机看片1024欧美日韩你懂的 | 成年人在线网站 | 久草视频福利 | 亚州欧美 | 成年人网站免费视频 | 成人老司机深夜福利久久 | 亚洲一区二区三区视频 | 国产综合亚洲专区在线 | 毛片激情永久免费 | 一级特黄色毛片免费看 | 综合久久91| 日韩精品欧美国产精品亚 | 日本三级免费网站 | 国产网站黄 | 欧美日韩亚洲国产 | 真实的国产乱xxxx | 在线播放人成午夜免费视频 | 日本欧美片 | 欧美在线亚洲 | 久久国产成人精品麻豆 | 国产成人精品视频 | 国产精品嘿咻嘿咻在线播放 | 亚洲毛片免费视频 | 免费一区二区三区在线视频 | 日鲁夜鲁鲁狠狠综合视频 | 深夜福利视频在线观看免费视频 | 美女张开腿给人网站 |