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
![图片[2]-Li cooking vessel with inscription “Yu (fish)” , late Shang dynasty, c. 13th-11th century BCE-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Shang dynasty/Bronzes/C1A000024N000000000PAD-2395.jpg)
![图片[3]-Li cooking vessel with inscription “Yu (fish)” , late Shang dynasty, c. 13th-11th century BCE-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Shang dynasty/Bronzes/C1A000024N000000000PAD-2396.jpg)
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