SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY BC

A similar bronze hu and cover with chain link handle is illustrated by J. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, The Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 269-71, no. 47. The foot of the Sackler hu is plain, unlike the foot of the present vessel. This is also true of another similar hu with cover and chain link handle from Shandong Linqu Xian, illustrated p. 271, fig. 47.1.