Jiaolong pattern pot

Bronze ware from the Warring States Period

Height 56.7 cm, diameter 15 cm

Excavated in Zhonghuo Village, Dingxiang County in 1995

The lid is flat and has a circular button in the middle, and a small mouth. The body has a square lip, a straight mouth, a narrow neck, sloping shoulders, an arc belly, a flat bottom, and a low ring foot. There are animal head-shaped ring ears on the shoulders, and four ring buttons are placed on the neck and lower abdomen. The body is decorated with six circles of fine interlaced dragon patterns, with wide string patterns and round beads as the base. The ring foot is decorated with rope patterns.