K-12087-012
Bianzu ding - cooking vessel for sacrificial use. Bronze. Vessel on three legs in the shape of dragons. Hemispherical body with everted lip and two handles. Along the neck broad border of horizontally placed cicadas.
Grooves filled in with red substance.
H.: 26.4 cm
Shang, early Anyang period.
Broken leg, repaired. Green, grey, and red patina.
Purchased by Karlbeck in Peking autumn 1934. Reported to come from the Anyang area.
Publ.: BMFEA 9, pl.2; BMFEA 21, pl.5:1; BMFEA, 34, pl.78b; U. Lienert, Typology of the Ting in the Shang Dynasty, vol. 1, pp.113-115, vol.2, ill. 82;
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