LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

Similar bands of diamond pattern or angular leiwen spirals bordered by circles rather than scales can be seen on two bronze you illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, p. 384, nos. 67 (of cylindrical form) and 68 (of pear shape), which are dated 11th century BC. Several other vessels with a similar band are also illustrated, pp. 392-3, figs. 68.5 - 68.7.