Title: Antique Japanese Brown Bronze Incense Burner Display Cup bowl
Shipping: $29.00
Artist: N/A
Period: 18th Century
History: N/A
Origin: Central Asia > Japan
Condition: Excellent
Item Date: 1700 to 1800
Item ID: 4325
A remarkable small antique Japanese brown bronze incense burner display bowl with all kinds of mythological logos that go all around the design of the outside cover. The bowl has three little pointed prong feet, the body with finely detailed patterns. Inscribed in elegant designs that run around the exterior of this bowl cup. Its function as a vessel was for Japanese, incense temple burning.
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze
Bronze is widely used for cast metal sculpture . Common bronze alloys often have the unusual and very desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling in the finest details of a mould. Bronze has resistance to corrosion by sea water along with several bronze alloys. Bronze also has very little metal-on-metal friction, which made it invaluable.
Bronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a "bronze". Making bronzes is highly skilled work, and a number of distinct casting processes may be employed, including lost-wax casting (and its modern-day spin-off investment casting), sandcasting and centrifugal casting. Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mold.
