Sun Dun, Jinggong

[Jinggong Sundun]

Jinggong Sundun is 17 cm high, 25.2 cm wide and 1.58 kg in weight
Don’t waste your mouth, tie your neck, make your ears ring, and have three animal hoofs under the circle. The cover is not completely symmetrical with the implement. The cover is lower than the implement and has no ears. There are three hoof-shaped buttons on it, but they can be placed. The cover and the implement are decorated with ivory patterns
There are three lines and 15 characters in the cover:
The Duke of Jing and the Sun cast his
Shandun, the old man used it
, and the “0027” treasure has no period
The main idea of the inscription is that Jinggong Sun made his own food and used it for a long life
Dun is a tool for holding millet, millet, rice and sorghum. The biggest feature is that the cover and the implement can be spherical or elliptical, so it is called “Watermelon”


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