Scattered snake pattern Gui

Bronze ware from the Spring and Autumn Period

Height 19 cm, diameter 36 cm

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

Utensil for rice and millet. The two vessels are of the same shape, size and pattern. This picture shows one of them. The lid and vessel are basically the same, and the upper and lower parts are combined into one. The lid and vessel are both rectangular, with flat mouth, straight wall, oblique fold on the lower belly wall, and flat bottom. A pair of animal-faced ring ears are set on each of the two short sides of the lid and vessel, supporting four curved webbed feet. The belly wall and foot wall are decorated with "C"-shaped coiled snake patterns.