LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 5TH CENTURY BC

A similar ding and cover of comparable size, dated early 5th century BC, is illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1995, pp. 158-9, no. 20, where the author notes, p. 159, that vessels with the same "T-shape decor seem to come mainly from the Yellow River basin," and occasionally from farther north. She also mentions a very similar vessel in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, and illustrates, p. 160, fig. 20.1, another similar ding and cover from Shanxi Tunliu Wujiagou, dated to early 5th century BC, as well as a drawing of an elliptical dou and cover from Shanxi Hunyuan Liyu, which shares the same scroll decoration, p. 161, fig. 20.2. The author further notes that fragments with related patterns suggest that vessels with this pattern were probably made at the foundry at Shanxi Houma.