Tripod Cauldron (Ding)

1200–1100 BCE Overall: 14.3 x 12.5 cm (5 5/8 x 4 15/16 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1960.288

In ancient China, bronze tripods of the type called ding were made in sets of different sizes to be used in rituals in which grain and meat was offered to the spirits of the ancestors. These bronzes were subsequently both collected items and major scholarly preoccupations in C...

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