Shang Ancestor Dingfu Yiyou

Age: Shang Dynasty, Grade 1

Specifications: Height 30.4cm, diameter 11.6×15.5cm, weight 5.9kg.

Excavation site: Excavated from a tomb of the Western Zhou Dynasty in Weijiazhuang, Long County in 1977

Wine container. Flat body with handle. Straight mouth, flat folded edge protruding inward, the mouth cross section is oval. With a lid, the lid top is raised, there is a mushroom-shaped button in the center, and there is a long folded edge under the lid that buckles with the neck of the vessel. There are two semi-circular ears on both sides of the upper belly of the vessel connecting the rope-shaped handle. The belly of the vessel is round and bulging, the bottom of the belly is rounded, and the bottom is connected to the ring foot outward. The lid is decorated with a circle of rhombus cloud thunder pattern bordered by continuous beads, separated by two shallow ridges. There is a circle of decoration on the upper belly of the vessel, divided by two ears and symmetrical with the relief animal head, and decorated with rhombus cloud thunder pattern bordered by continuous beads. The ring foot is decorated with two convex string patterns. The lid of the vessel has the same inscription, each with four characters: "祖丁父已"