WARRING STATES PERIOD, 4TH-3RD CENTURY BC

A very similar, but slightly larger (30.1 cm. high) hu, is illustrated by J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, p. 284, no. 51, where it is dated late Warring States period, 3rd century BC.