Heaven and Empire: Khmer Bronzes from the 9th to the 15th Centuries.(Book Review)

Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and thePacific | March 22, 2003| | Copyright

Marlene L. Zefferys, Nicholas S. Zefferys, and Jeffrey Stone. Bangkok: White Lotus Press, 2001. xiv-+-141 pp, 98 color plates plus many black and white. $37.50. IBSN 974753493-2.

Metal-working skills have always offered a criterion of social development. Artistic expression evolves when utilitarian objects like an iron axe head or a bronze water container, themselves the descendants of stone or clay artifacts, are treated in a manner transcending mere use. The incised and molded ritual urns and ewers of the Shang in China and the drums of Dongsonian craftsmen in Viet ...

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