How to Evaluate an Ancient bronze sculpture?

Then do further identification, rub your hands touch objects, sniffing hand, those pseudo-copper smell. Can also be washed with hot alkali, pseudo-rust will fall off, if scrub it down, and then roasted to fall off; or with tongue licking, if lo salt is false rust. Weigh hand feel and sound, if too light or too heavy will attract attention, of course, this depends on experience. On other aspects, the bronze sculpture in the Western Zhou Dynasty is similar to the features of Xia. It may also be hand percussion kind, listen to their sound, if it may sound fine and Qing Cui; if the sound muddy, issued a "hum" sound, you need to be vigilant. Pattern and the inscription is a key to identify bronze, bronze pattern Xia simple; Shang harassment pattern is gorgeous, and more flower over the body; general and in consultation with the Western Zhou Dynasty, but later tend to na?ve.
The Spring and Autumn pattern is fresh and lively, rich flavor of life, with emphasis on practical Han, patterns, and the previous generation and not less fine. In addition, decoration patterns from different times to infer changes in the content, identify. For instance, in the sound, the corrosion on the bronze sculpture as well as the weight. As for the inscription, mainly from its fonts to be identified. Shang regular font, generous gesture Emotion, beautiful and easy, elegant and beautiful than the latter part of the body wave spine; the early Zhou Dynasty followed the wave spine body; spring, when the book has body fat and lean body body, as well as the shape of tadpoles, "Li fight Man”, and the pattern of the "bird book worm"; most of the Warring States Period Bronze font is not known, but also with the font vertical pen down.
 The sharp end "hanging seal" shape; the Qin Dynasty unified the text, General Xiao Zhuan. In addition, also according to the number of inscriptions words, content to determine. Copper and copper device type identification more simple, look at the bottom of bronze, brass texture if exposed, it is counterfeit. The means of discrimination of the bronze statue are fundamentally the same by and large. If the pseudo-bottom system, with hot alkaline wash can see their true colors. In addition to bronze to remember clearly the device type, name, but also what to know what's cast bronze, what's the style of the bronze is cast. Identification of bronze, is a tedious and difficult task, but once you have a point, look at, remember, to think, was able to identify true and false.
Tang called on the previous habits of the ancient bronzes bronzes, its both a long history, the development of big changes. From the Shang Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, chinese bronze in each period of the casting process, patterns, inscriptions on each other. Such as the Shang Dynasty bronze pattern, mostly plain, two-story pattern, three patterns; pattern is being exaggerated and transformed the image of various animals, such as four-legged animals, in some bronze pattern was changed two legs, and some feathers were replaced by animal-shaped seal pattern and so on. On the decorations, the china bronze sculpture of the Western Zhou Dynasty stands on the ones of Shang Dynasty. Taotie plain bronze, in the image of a paper to fill in the blank between the many large empty space to fill and generous a paper thin, small space to fill a paper thin small square space, small space to fill a paper thin dots or small square a paper thin rectangular space.