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Description: | Illustration of a similar li in: Barnhard Karlgren, Yin and Chou in Chinese Bronzes, BFEA, Stockholm, 1935. pl.XXXVII, no. D25
Bronze cooking vessel, li, from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, 722-481 BC. Squat body with three mammiform lobes with corresponding short cylindrical feet beneath. Decorated with a band of close raised vertical lines and three flanges. The angular shoulders are surmounted by a short neck with wide everted rim. There is some green patination.
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 30.6.64/1
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caption: Top view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 30.6.64/1
caption: Bottom view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 30.6.64/1
caption: Label view of part of Horniman Museum object no 30.6.64/1 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bronze Bronze metal Chinese Peoples Food Archaeology cooking containers (food processing & storage) Food and Feasting | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-65834 | Go to resource |
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