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Ding Bronze Vessel. These vessels became a collector’s item because of inscriptions cast on their surfaces, in scripts that were no longer in daily use. Rubbing includes the inscriptions and detailed descriptions of the vessel written by guo zi jian (the imperial college) of qing.

A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING
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The rest of the body is covered in a decoration of bosses against a background of lozenges. There was a large range of vessel shapes. This vessel has the inscription 大禾 da he, probably the name of.

A BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, DING

Sheng ding was a kind of ding mostly used to offer meat to the gods. Rectangular in shape and upon four cylindrical legs. The creatures are separated by flanges. Most often, the iron age generally followed the bronze age.