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拍品專文
The inscription cast inside the cover and in the bottom of the vessel, Fu ding, may be translated as 'Father Ding.'
A similar you with differently shaped animal masks is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Chinese Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 388-9, no. 68, which is dated to the 11th century BC.
A similar you with differently shaped animal masks is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Chinese Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington, DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 388-9, no. 68, which is dated to the 11th century BC.