SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, EARLY TO MID 6TH CENTURY BC

A similar ding and cover of smaller size (30.7 cm. across handles) is illustrated by J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1995, pp. 136-37, no. 14, where the author ascribes it to North-central China. Another ding and cover of similar proportions, but of larger size (54 cm. diam.) and cast with masks at the top of each leg, in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo Qingtongqi Quanji - 8 - Dong Zhou (2), Beijing, 1995, p. 21, no. 22, where it is dated to the late Spring and Autumn period.