Western Zhou Dynasty Phoenix Pattern Lifting Wine Bottle

Age: Western Zhou, Grade I

Specifications: Height 26.5cm, height 24.3cm, diameter 8×10.3cm, belly depth 14.7cm, weight 2080g

Excavation site: Excavated from Tomb No. 8 of the National Cemetery in Zhuyuangou, Baoji City in 1980

Wine container. The two vases are identical in shape, pattern, and inscription, except for the size. The vases have a handle, a lid, a straight mouth, a narrow neck, a deep belly, a bulging lower abdomen, and a low ring foot. The handle and the body of the vases are connected by a ring. There is a round sculpture of a beast head at the end of the beam, with ears standing sideways and two divergent horns, like a deer head. The back of the beam is decorated with Kuilong patterns. The lid is raised, with a mushroom-shaped handle in the middle, and the handle is decorated with four animal heads. The lid and neck are decorated with string patterns and Kuifeng patterns looking back, and the ring foot is decorated with string patterns. There is no ground pattern decoration on the whole body. Both the lid and the bottom of the vessel are engraved with two lines of four characters "扎（作）宝尊沂".