Four Snake Yan

[Four Snake Yan]

Four Snake Yan, 44.7cm high, 33.7cm wide, 28.7 caliber × 23.2 cm, weighing 12.3 kg
Yan split. The steamer is in the shape of a rectangular bucket, with a straight mouth and ears, no partition in the mouth, a high and deep belly, an outer space at the top, a convergence at the bottom, a grate hole on the flat bottom, and a tenon ring under the steamer. It is a sub-mouth. The Li has a straight mouth with ears, and inside the mouth is a concave female mouth used to insert the tenon ring of the steamer. The four corners of the shoulder are decorated with coiled snakes. The neck of the snake is raised, and the eyes are protruding from the top of the head. The Li drum belly is decorated with four balls. The crotch line is connected to the waist, and the feet are hoof-shaped. The belly of the steamer is decorated with three layers of linked thunder patterns, the earrings change weight ring patterns, the belly of the caldron is decorated with snake patterns, and the body of four coiled snakes is decorated with scale patterns
The bronzes in the early Spring and Autumn Period basically follow the decoration of the late Western Zhou Dynasty. For example, the double ring pattern and scale pattern are all new patterns in the late Western Zhou Dynasty. However, from the ear pattern of this device, the double ring pattern has begun to deform, losing the inner ring in the middle, leaving only the outer ring. Hooked thunder patterns were once popular in the late Shang Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Hooked thunder patterns inlaid with turquoise, gold, silver and other objects were popular. The hook and thunder patterns on this instrument are not inlaid, and it is still in the transitional stage