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Council of Trustees, National Gallery of Victoria, Published 1975. Paperback, 72 pp.; 21 x 28 cm, oblong; illustrated with color and black-and-white plates, line drawings, rubbings and one map.
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In Good condition. Pictorial paper covers with bumping and creasing to edges and corners. Front cover faded, with fading to back cover near spine. Mild shelf and edge wear with some color loss along edges. Sticker residue and scattered foxing specks to back cover. Binding tight. Ex-library: title page carries an inked Docent Council library stamp of the Asian Art Museum at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, struck through in pen, with a handwritten accession number; blank label affixed over the bookplate inside front cover; unused date due label and a second struck-through stamp inside rear cover. Typed errata and omissions sheet affixed between contents and list of plates, toned with tearing and chipping to edge. Transparent numbered overlay leaf at plate 17 present. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Exhibition handbook for archaic Chinese bronzes drawn from Australian and New Zealand collections, shown at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1975 alongside a symposium, Scientific Methods of Research in the Study of Ancient Chinese and Southeast Asian Metal Artifacts, held October 6 to 10. Barnard, of the Australian National University, wrote extensively on bronze casting technology and on the forgery of archaic bronze inscriptions; the checklist here catalogues items 58 to 64 as forgeries and 65 to 67 as rubbings. Lenders include the National Gallery of Victoria, Auckland Institute and Museum, Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the Lyttelton Taylor Collection at the Australian National University. Also drawn on is the Rewi Alley Collection at Canterbury Museum, assembled over sixty years in China by the New Zealand-born reformer and released for export under a Chinese government exemption. Contents: Preface; Introduction; Chronology; Vessel Types and Other Bronze Artifacts; Decoration; The Inscriptions and the Archaic Script; Archaistic Bronzes and Forgeries; Bronzes of the Ordos and Dong-son; Plates.