Li cooking vessel with inscription “Yu (fish)” , late Shang dynasty, c. 13th-11th century BCE

Li cooking vessel with insertion “Yu (fish)”, late Shang dynamics, c. 13th-11th century BCE

• Image Number:C1A000024N000000000PAD
• Dynasty:Shang dynamics
• Category:Bronzes
• Function:Gifts, food utensils
• Material:Mineral/metal/bronze
• Description:
  , Erect ears and bulge abdomen. The neck is decorated with two string patterns, and the belly is decorated with V-shaped intermittent rope patterns. The style is simple. The inscription, cast on the inner wall of the neck above the hind foot, is a pictographic “fish” character; This clan may be the official in charge of fish affairs, so it has always used “fish” as the clan emblem. Later generations passed it on as a surname. It was forged for ancestor worship in the ancestral temple