Cloud thunder ground nipple pattern bottle
Shang Dynasty bronze ware
20.5 cm high, 29 cm belly diameter. Excavated in Houlanjiagou Village, Shilou County in 1957. Water or wine container. Constricted mouth, sloping shoulders, bulging belly, ring foot. The neck is decorated with double string patterns, the shoulders are high relief with three animal heads (or sheep heads), the shoulders are decorated with Kui patterns composed of eye-thunder patterns, the abdomen is decorated with oblique square cloud-thunder ground nipple patterns, and the ring foot is decorated with thunder patterns. The whole body is bright as new, and the patterns are delicate and regular. Late Shang Dynasty.