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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. hardcover. viii, 523 pages, very good hardcover in a lightly shelfworn dustjacket. Profusely illustrated with black and white photos and line drawings. "Art of the Houma Foundry is an illustrated repertory of archaeological finds made at the site of a sixth- to fifth-century B.C. bronze foundry located at modern Houma in Shanxi Province, P.R.C. In the sixth and fifth centuries, Houma was the capital of the state of Jin, a major power in China at the time. The excavation of the foundry site, the largest known in the ancient world, was important above all for the spectacular wealth of decorated clay foundry-debris that was recovered there...
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Art of the Houma Foundry Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Provincial Hardcover - 1996
by Li Xiating; Liang Ziming
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- Title Art of the Houma Foundry Institute of Archaeology of Shanxi Provincial
- Author Li Xiating; Liang Ziming
- Binding Hardcover
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- Pages 544
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date November 11, 1996
- ISBN 9780691011370
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