EARLY EASTERN ZHOU, SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD (6TH CENTURY BC)

A very similar elliptical covered vessel but with human-form feet in the Royal Ontario Museum is illustrated by J. So, in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections; New York & Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Foundation & Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1995, p.313, fig. 61.1. Another is illustrated in B. Karlgren, A Catalogue of the Chinese Bronzes in the Alfred F. Pillsbury Collection, 1952, Minneapolis, pp.136-137, no.50, pl.70. These vessels all bear similar flared crowns with openwork lattice decoration and ring-shaped animal-form handles with a hooked lower projection.

See also the elliptical vessel in the Collection of the Shaanxi History Museum, illustrated in Li Xixing, The Shaanxi Bronzes, Xi'an, 1994, p. 123, with human-form rather than animal-form legs.