LATE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, LATE 6TH-5TH CENTURY BC

For a hu of similar proportions and with chain-link handle, but with an undecorated body, from Shandong Qufu Xian M3 and dated to the 4th century B.C., see J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, p. 277, fig. 49.2. See, also, another hu of similar form with chain-link handle, but with flat-cast decorative bands and taotie mask and loose ring handles on the lower body, from Hubei Jiangling Yutaishan, dated to the late 4th-3rd century B.C., illustrated op. cit., p. 287, fig. 51.3.