[Sca-cooks] Cast iron pots

[Elaine Koogler]

I'll have to check a couple of the books I've got upstairs.  And, I may be
going to the Freer next week and can ask if anyone there has any information
on how these dings were cast.  I do know that there were pottery
predecessors to them, done in the prehistoric eras.  I'll let you know what
I find out.

Kiri
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippa Alderton" <phlip_u at yahoo.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Cast iron pots


>
> --- Mercy Neumark <mneumark at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Not to yet again wave the banner of asia and how
> > advanced they were in
> > period (who me?), in China, GIANT cookpots were
> > caste in bronze and used for
> > cooking.  And small ones too.  My metal teacher (THL
> > Robindra of Isles) told
> > me he heard of a recent pour that was several tons
> > in bronze, done by those
> > cool chinese metalworkers!
> >
> > I have a book on Chinese porcelain and Chinese
> > bronzes and it shows shards
> > from huge molds (the molds were made of a kaolin
> > clay, which is a hifire,
> > pure claybody) that were done in pre-period (I don't
> > have the book in front
> > of me, but I'm thinking it was like B.C. sometime).
> >
> > Not sure if this technology passed into europe, but
> > as far as I can tell
> > from the woodblocks I've seen from period, it looks
> > to me like some sort of
> > pot was made in metal.  Clay is WAY to heavy to prop
> > up on those spit-like
> > tripods.  I'm probably wrong though.
> >
> > Just my two yen here. :)
>
> FYI, Dick Wild posted me the following:
>
> > A little trivia:  The three legged Chinese bronze
> > Deng which I observed in San Francisco several years
> > ago at the Peoples Republic of Chinas
> > Archeological Exhibitions weighed 250 kilos!!  Most
> > of the surviving Dengs were funerary objects in
> which > mourners partook of a last meal in honor of
> the
> > departed and then were buried with the deceased.
> > Smaller Deng or those found by grave robbers were
> > frequently recast into farm implements or other
> items > for daily use.
>
> I'd be very interested in references and information
> relating to metalworking techniques and skill in
> period. no matter which culture used what, when. Is
> anyone aware of a reasonably accurate reference, with,
> hopefully, period examples of various related metal
> working skills?
>
> Phlip
>
>
>
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