Lu, Pengliang: Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900. Exhibition: New York, Metropolitan Museum and Shanghai, Shanghai Gallery of Art, 2025. 320 pages, 300 colour illustrations. Hardback. 28 x 24cms. Exploring Chinese bronzes from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, including ritual vessels, ceremonial bells, incense burners, and vases. 5 essays and 181 catalogue entries reconstruct ancient rites through the bronzes from the Son, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, looking at their stylistic evolution from the Southern Song to Early Ming period, the innovations of bronze production in the Ming Dynasty, their changing roles from the Ming to Qing dynasties, and the archaistic bronzes of the Qing dynasty.
Exploring Chinese bronzes from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries, including ritual vessels, ceremonial bells, incense burners, and vases. 5 essays and 181 catalogue entries reconstruct ancient rites through the bronzes from the Son, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, looking at their stylistic evolution from the Southern Song to Early Ming period, the innovations of bronze production in the Ming Dynasty, their changing roles from the Ming to Qing dynasties, and the archaistic bronzes of the Qing dynasty