You wine vessel with Shi emblem, early Western Zhou period, 1049/45-957 BCE-China Archive

Image Number: K1A002130N000000000PAC
Dynasty: Western Zhou dynasty
Category: Bronzes
Function: 禮器,酒器
Material:Mineral/metal/bronze
Description:
lifting beam vibrator, long sub port, It is bulging and drooping in the abdomen, and the ring foot is out of the body, with local defects. Bud shaped cover button. The two halves of the ring ears and the neck are decorated with relief animal heads, the cover and the body are decorated with diamond grid thunder stripes, and the upper and lower parts are decorated with a circle of beads. The cover is the same as the inscription. The inscriptions of this family name are scattered in the bronzes unearthed in Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province, Yin Ruins in Anyang, Henan Province, Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and Surabaya, Shandong Province. This artifact can also be compared with the bronze You (M38:61) unearthed in the Qianzhang Cemetery in Tengzhou, Shandong Province from the late Shang Dynasty to the early Western Zhou Dynasty