Panhui Pattern Covered Bean

Bronze ware from the Spring and Autumn Period

Height 19.8 cm, diameter 16.7 cm

Excavated from Zhao Qing's tomb in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan City in 1988

After the lid and bean plate are buckled together, it is flat and spherical. The lid is in the shape of a bowl, with a round handle and a female mouth, which can be fitted with the bean plate mouth. The bean plate has a deep belly, a small flat bottom, and a trumpet-shaped low handle ring foot. A pair of ring ears are placed on both sides of the bean plate. The handle on the lid is decorated with patterns all around, from the inside to the outside, in order, triangular volute pattern, rope pattern, hook-connected cloud pattern and cloud head triangle pattern. The lid and bean plate are decorated with wide and narrow coiled snake patterns all around, with tight patterns and convex string triangle patterns as boundary patterns. There are three circles of ">" patterns on the rim, and a pair of "S"-shaped Kuilongs are used as filling patterns in the lower abdomen. The ring ears are decorated with shell patterns and rope patterns. The patterns are patterned, with segmented ring prints and clear joints.