Dui food container of Chen Hou Wu, mid Warring States period (361 BCE)
- Image Number: al:Mineral/metal/bronze
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Round mouth, Deep straight wall slightly drum, hemispherical body, two animal heads and ears, three animal feet. Its wall is thick and smooth without lines. The ancient Chengde Mountain Resort is a bronze ware handed down from the Qi State. The inscription in the abdomen has eight lines and thirty-six words: “Only ten and four years ago, Marquis Chen used a group of princes to donate money as a sacrificial device for the emperor’s wife and filial piety to the imperial concubine It is recorded that in the 14th year (361 B.C.) of Duke Huan of Qi (Chen Houwu), Tian made this sacrificial device for his late mother, Princess Xiaofei
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