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- Glided bronze tiger-devouring sheep-shaped pedestal
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- Bronze Gui-food vessel
- Bronze He-wine vessel
- Bronze Fu
- Bronze Yan with beast-mask design
- Scale-shaped gold ornamental piece
- Winged-animal-shaped bronze He(wine vessel) with loop handle
- Painted wooden six-dice game players
- Wooden strips recording the reception at Xuanquan Post
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Bronze Yan with beast-mask design
Western Zhou Dynasty
Height 38cm, diameter at mouth
23.2cm
Unearthed from tomb No.2 at Baicaopo,
Lingtai County, Gansu Province
Preserved in Gansu Provincial
Museum
Yan is composed of two parts: Zeng
and Li of which the Zeng part have flared mouth, straight standing ear,
slightly-slanted deep belly, contracted waist and a removable grate at the
bottom inside; the Li part have contracted mouth, round shoulder, parted crotch
at the belly and three rectangular-pyramid-post-like feet of which the end is a
bit thicker. The ear of this Yan is decorated with rope design, the neck with
three groups of beast-mask design, the crotch with ox-horn-shaped beast mask
design.
Yan is a sort of cooking vessel
similar to that of steamer we use today prevailing from the Shang Dynasty to the
Han Dynasty. Its upper Zeng part is for holding food on the grate the holes on which is for steam to go
from the lower Li part and the lower Li part is for holding water.
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