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Round bronze ding
Round bronze ding
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397
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Round bronze ding Southern China, late Spring and Autumn period (early 6th century BC - 476 BC)
Short title
Round bronze ding
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BATEA : 390
Simple name
ding
Classified name
metal; bronze; Spring and Autumn period; animal; snake; scholar's studio; bird; China; ding; burial; tomb; tripod;
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A three-legged round bronze vessel, the legs hollow from the back sharp outcurving and pointed the whole cast in three sections as shown by the base, rectangular handles rising from the rim the interior surface of the handles each decorated with two confronted snakes cast in low relief, the body cast with a band of stylised birds heads joined together between the narrow bands of herring bones and continuous circles.
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bronze
Description condition
The object was conserved by Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre in 2019; fair
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11.4cm
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13.3cm
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Case G-5
Production date
771 BC = 475 BC
Production period
Spring and Autumn
Production place
China
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