offerkärl, kärl, vessel

Ding - kokkärl av brons för offerbruk. Kärl av halvsfärisk form med två handtag och tre cylinderformade fötter. Dekor i relief av rutmönster med meanderbårder kring cirklar (xiefangge yunleiwen) samt kring mynningen en bård av stiliserade drakar.
Ding – cooking vessel for sacrificial use. Vessel on three cylindrical legs. Hemispherical body with horisontal lip and two handles. Neck band of dragons on a background of yunleiwen. The belly covered by a diaper pattern, showing circlets surrounded by yunleiwen (so-called xiefangge yunleiwen). The relief is exceedingly low and flat all over, the lines in the principal décor being in the same plane as the now light-colored lines in the spiral ground pattern, the shallow grooves being inlaid with some black resinous substance.
Inscription on the inside below the rim: picture of a hand wielding a stick and chasing a walking animal.

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Ding - cooking vessel for sacrificial use. Bronze. Vessel on three cylindrical legs. Hemispherical body with horizontal lip and two handles. Neck-band of dragons covered with “cloud and thunder”-pattern (yunleiwen). The belly covered by a diaper pattern, showing circlets surrounded by “cloud and thunder”-pattern (xiefangge yunleiwen).
Inscription: Hand with staff, chasing an animal.
Shang, Anyang period.
H.: 19.5 cm
Purchased in Peking 1934/35 by O. Karlbeck. According to information from Anyang.
Publ.: BMFEA, 9, pl. 32; ibid, 21, pl. 2:1, ibid, 34, pl. 66a;