Spring and Autumn and Warring States period of bronze worth how much?

1. animal face pattern ancient known as taotie pattern, (taotie for the name of the legendary gluttonous beast), the ancients believe that the beast has a head without a body is extremely scary, in fact, this kind of decoration is a variety of animals or fantasy beasts of the head of the front pattern. After another name for the animal face pattern, more accurate than the Taotie pattern, clearer. The main decorative object of the animal-face pattern is the tripod, and the bronze tripod is not only used as a practical tool, but also has an important use, that is, used as a ceremonial tool. Most of the animal face pattern with exaggerated animal face, simple lines to modify the objects, I believe that this with the religious beliefs of the people at that time and the social patriarchal system has a close connection, which is also the study of ancient China's social, economic and religious main basis. Beast face pattern is characterized by the nose for the center line, highlighting the front shape, both sides for the symmetrical arrangement, the upper end of the first is the corner, the corner of the eye, more specific beast face pattern in the eye and eyebrows, eye side with ears, most of the claws, both sides of the left and right to expand the body or the tail of the animal, a few abbreviated form of the animal body and tail is not there. It can be said that all the animal face pattern is basically molded according to this model, only in the expression of methods and techniques, with the development of the times and different. Also known as "animal face pattern". It is one of the common decorative patterns on bronzes. The pattern symbolizes the face of Taotie, a gluttonous beast in ancient legends, with many variations. The word taotie is found in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals (吕氏春秋-先识览), which reads: "The Taotie of the Zhou tripods, with a head but no body, eats people without swallowing and harms its body, in order to say that it repays them more." From the Shang Dynasty to the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Taotie was often used as the theme decoration on the objects, and it was mostly lined with cloud and thunder pattern. After the late Western Zhou Dynasty, it gradually promoted the prominence of the theme decoration, and was often used to imitate the decoration on the ear or foot of the vessel. Since the Song dynasty Xuanhe Bogu TuLu called this type of decoration Taotie, the name has been used throughout the ages. 2.3. Dragon motifs include kui dragons and kui dragons. The kui here is an ancient name for an animal with one horn and one foot, but in fact it is a profile of a bipedal animal. The image of the dragon in the minds of the ancients is a variety of different, so the decoration is also different, according to the structure of the pattern points, there are crawling dragon pattern, curly body dragon pattern, cross body dragon pattern, double body dragon pattern, two-headed dragon pattern, and so on. One of the decorative patterns on the bronzes. The dragon is an animal in the legend of the ancient gods. Generally, its front view is reflected by its nose as the center line, with eyes on both sides and its body extending to both sides. If the side of the image, it is a long body and a claw. The image of the dragon has a very early origin, but as a bronze decoration, the earliest seen in the Shang Dynasty Erligang period, after the late Shang Dynasty, the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn period until the Warring States, there are different forms of the dragon pattern appeared. In the Shang Dynasty, most of the dragons were curved; in the Western Zhou Dynasty, most of the dragons were coiled around each other, or the head was in the center and the two tails were separated. Legend has it that the appearance of dragons is related to water, "Kao Gong Ji - Painting Aeroglyphics" said: "Water with dragons, fire with huan." The image of the dragon is used to symbolize the god of water, so in the bronze water vessels, there are more dragon scrolls or three-dimensional images. According to the form of the dragon pattern, it can be broadly categorized into the crawling dragon pattern, the scrolling dragon pattern, the intersecting dragon pattern, the two-headed dragon pattern and the double-body dragon pattern. In the records since the Song Dynasty, on bronzes, where a claw is shown in such a pattern, it is also called "kui dragons" or "kui dragons". Kui dragon pattern The pattern represents a legendary animal that resembles a dragon, the kui, with one horn and one foot, an open mouth and an upwardly curled tail. Since the Song Dynasty, all the reptile-like figures on bronzes with one foot are called kui or kui dragons, which is related to the ancient record of "kui with one foot". This is related to the ancient record of "Kui with one foot". "Shuowen - 攵部"："Kui, a god, is like a dragon with one foot." Some kui dragons have developed into geometrical decorations with great variations. Commonly, the body of the two sides, or the body as a diagonal, each end of a kui head. Prevalent in the early Shang and Western Zhou Dynasty. 4. phoenix bird pattern phoenix was first seen in the book of poems, the original "phoenix emperor", the Han dynasty Mao Heng interpreted as "the male for the phoenix, the female for the emperor". The phoenix and the dragon were both auspicious animals in ancient times. "The bird of the sky, descended and gave birth to Shang", indicating that the bird of the sky is the totem of Shang, in ancient times, the phoenix is the representative of the bird totem. Phoenix bird pattern according to the composition of the image is divided into long beak bird pattern, the body is a bird, the head has a long beak; owl pattern, the front, large round eyes, hair horns and large wings, prevalent in the middle and late Shang Dynasty; geese pattern, is a realistic image of the bird pattern, belongs to the late Spring and Autumn period of the northern style. The phoenix and bird motifs are often found on the necks, mouths, bellies and feet of tripods, guis, zuns, wine containers, jerricans, goblets, goblets, cups, yi, and jugs. It is one of the decorative patterns on bronzes. The bird has a long plume and a drooping tail or a long tail curled upwards, looking forward or looking back. Most of them are arranged symmetrically on the bronzes. The jade cong unearthed in Liangzhu culture has a clear bird pattern. The earliest appearance of bird motifs on bronzes is the deformed bird motifs of the Erligang period. In the Yinxu period, bird motifs were already used as the main motifs. Bird motifs appeared in large numbers from the early Western Zhou Dynasty until the Spring and Autumn Period. The bird motifs of the Shang Dynasty were mostly short-tailed, while those of the Western Zhou Dynasty were mostly long-tailed and high-crowned. Bird motifs include phoenix motifs, owl motifs, luan motifs and geese motifs arranged in groups. 5. 5. coiled chi dragon folk have nine sons of the dragon, auger and chi are the son of the dragon said, and coiled means "coiled and ambush". The chi dragon motif on ancient bronze vessels is characterized by a body and legs that resemble a dragon and a face that resembles a beast. This motif was used in the Shang, Ming, and Zhou dynasties, and was the main motif on jade objects of the Spring and Autumn, Warring States, and Han dynasties. The chi dragons of the Warring States period have round eyes and large noses, double-lined eyebrows, cat's ears, thick and curved necks, and curved legs with claws that are often upturned. The body is mostly outlined in shaded lines, and the tail is carved in shaded lines in the form of gelatinous silk. In the Han Dynasty, the eyebrows are raised and colored, the eyes are slightly lowered, the nose has fine lines, and the body is the same as that of the Warring States period, except that the tail is made up of two curls and only three legs. In the period of North and South Dynasties, the eyes are slightly longer and curved, the two cheeks around the mouth have more grooves, some have long horns on the head, some have no horns, the legs are shorter, usually there is only one front leg, so it is also three legs, sometimes, the front leg extends out a little bit as the fourth leg, and the curly cloud pattern on the tail is a little wider than before. In the Song Dynasty, the most important feature is that there is a very wide line under the nose, which is very three-dimensional. Yuan Dynasty, the forehead is wide and high, its eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth are concentrated in the lower part of the whole face, accounting for only one-third of the face, the neck is low, many places have been covered by hair, rising, crouching, circling and other images, its magnificent, beautiful form. Until the Qing Dynasty, there was a unique pattern that had not been seen in previous eras. 6. venomous snake pattern snake pattern on the bronze a kind of decoration. There is a triangular or rounded triangular head, a pair of prominent large round eyes, the body has scaly joints, curled long stripes, the snake's characteristics are very obvious, often as an accessory to shrink very small, some people believe that it is the silkworm pattern. Individuals have as the main pattern, seen in the Shang Dynasty bronzes. In the late Shang and early Zhou dynasties, most of the snake motifs were arranged individually; in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, most of the snake motifs were very small, and were in the shape of coiling and interlocking, which was formerly known as the "coiled venomous motif". Coiled viper pattern One of the decorative patterns on bronzes. It is a geometrical pattern with the image of a coiled and curved snake. Prevalent in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States. 7. Yunlei pattern is a kind of deformed line stripe, mostly used as the ground pattern, playing the role of accompanying the main pattern. It is composed of softly circling lines as the cloud pattern, and the circling lines with square folds are the thunder pattern, which was prevalent in the middle and late Shang Dynasty. 8. Vortex pattern is also known as fire pattern. As the name suggests, it resembles a water vortex, so it is called the Eddy Pattern. Characterized by a circle, the inner circle along the edge of the rotating arc, in the middle of a small circle, like the representative of the water rises, round next to five semi-circular curve, like the water vortex excitation. Some people believe that the shape of the vortex pattern like the sun like, is the sky fire, also known as the fire pattern, the early Shang dynasty vortex pattern is a single continuous arrangement, the middle and late Shang dynasty to the spring and autumn and warring states period, generally with the dragon pattern, eyepatterns, birds, tigers, cicadas and so on between the arrangement. Scroll pattern is mostly used in the shoulders and abdomen of earthenware jar, tripod, jia, and ampoule, which prevailed in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. 9. Heavy ring pattern is composed of slightly elliptical rings, with one, two or three rings, one side of the ring forming two right angles or acute angles. Sometimes also appear with other decorations. Prevalent in the middle and late Western Zhou Dynasty. 10. Stealing Curve Pattern: It is a flat and long pattern made up of two hooked or "S" shaped lines, often filled with eyelets in the middle, prevalent in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Kui dragons: the performance of the legend of an animal similar to the dragon, the pattern is mostly a horn, a foot, mouth open, tail rolled up. Some kui motifs have become geometric decorations. Most of them are used as the main pattern on the artifacts. Dragon motifs: The motifs are based on the image of the legendary dragon. Basically, there are three forms: the curved form, several dragons coiled around each other, the head in the center of the double body. Coiled chi dragon pattern: shaped like a kui dragons, open mouth, curled tail, the pattern is composed of coiled and curved small snake (gnarled) figure. Bird motifs: Some of the motifs have a long plume and a drooping tail, while others have a long tail curled upwards, with the head looking forward or in a retrospective position. There are also birds with upward or downward facing crowns, and this shape of bird motifs is also commonly known as phoenix bird motifs. This shape of bird pattern is also commonly known as phoenix bird pattern. Bird pattern is mostly used as the theme decoration on the artifacts. Cicada motifs: Most of the motifs are in the shape of a cicada in a triangle, with no front or back feet, and surrounded by cloud and thunder motifs. There are also long shaped ones with front and back feet, and the center is filled with cloud and thunder pattern. Silkworm: The head is rounded, the eyes are protruding, and the body is curved. Mostly decorated on the mouth or foot of the object. Elephant pattern: the pattern represents the form of an elephant, with a long trunk constituting a distinctive feature, and there is also a single elephant head and trunk as the pattern. Fish motifs: the motifs show the shape of fish, some of which are dull, while others are vivid. There are one or two spine fins and two ventral fins. Fish motifs are often found on plates, reflecting the close integration of the decoration and the shape of the object. Fish motifs are also often applied to bronze washings and bronze mirrors. Turtle pattern: the shape of the turtle is generally depicted in its entirety, which is not often seen in copper wares, and is mostly applied to the inside of plates. Shell Pattern: the shape is like a shell, connecting individual shells to form a pattern. Cloud Thunder Pattern: a typical pattern on bronze wares. Its basic feature is a geometric pattern composed of consecutive cyclopean lines. Some patterns make a continuous composition of round shapes, which is called Yunlai Pattern; some patterns make a continuous composition of square shapes, which is called Lei Pattern. The cloud and thunder pattern is often used as the ground pattern of the bronzes, which is used to emphasize the theme pattern. There are also alone in the neck or foot of the object. Hooked Thunder Pattern: It consists of lines that are similar to a T-shape and are connected with each other. Nipple Pattern: one of the simplest patterns on bronzes. The pattern is in the form of raised nipples in single rows or squares. There is another pattern, the nipples are placed in a diagonal grid, known as the diagonal grid nipple pattern