LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC

Similar pendent lappets formed by confronted dragons can be seen on the sides of a ding, also dated to the late Spring and Autumn period, 6th century BC, illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, New York, 1995, pp. 114-15, no. 9.