QUA231 - NEW BOOK Qinghua University Art Museum: GONG JIN ZHI GONG: ZAOQI DONGXI WENMING JIAOLIU ZHONG DE JINSHU YISHU. The Craft of Metalwork: Cultural Exchanges in Metal Art among the Ancient East and West. 攻金之工:早期東西文明交流中的金屬藝術. Beijing, 2025. 953 pp. Full page colour plates throughout. Numerous colour text plates. 2 vols. 29x25 cm. Cloth. GBP 300.00 Large and weighty two-volume catalogue produced to commemorate an exceptional and truly memorable exhibition held at Qinghua University Art Museum in Beijing in 2023. Shows many fine, indeed extraordinary, ancient pieces of gold, silver and metalwork from sites along the length and breadth of the Silk Road. Many of the exhibits demonstrating cross-cultural influences. Exhibits range from objects from the period of Alexander the Great on through Mesopotamian, Bactrian, Sassanian, Kushan, Inner Mongolia, the Steppes and much Chinese material. The exhibits come from museums in China together with many loans from the Ikuo Hirayama Collection in Japan. All exhibits illustrated in colour an fully described. Detailed essays accompany. Foreword, introductions of decent and detailed length to each section plus captions to plates in English. Main text in Chinese. An excellent contribution to the study of ancient Asian metalwork in the framework of the Silk Road and its prime influence through the centuries in disseminating cross-cultural influences across Asia. Immediately went out-of-print. We have but one copy. Subjects: Archaeology Item 5 in List 213. URL for this record: hanshan.com/?q/QUA231.HTM Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com. |