EARLY SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, LATE 8TH-EARLY 7TH CENTURY BC

A very similar ding of approximately the same size is illustrated by Jenny So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 102-3, no. 6, where it is dated Eastern Zhou, early Spring and Autumn period, late 8th-early 7th century BC.