Gourd pot

Gourd pot

Bronze ware from the Spring and Autumn Period
40.8 cm high, maximum belly diameter 18.2 cm. Excavated from Zhao Qing's tomb in Jinsheng Village, Taiyuan City in 1988. Wine vessel. The lid of the pot is a round-carved bird-of-prey-shaped handle, with its beak wide open and eyes wide open, and its body decorated with exquisite feather patterns with distinct layers; its claws are holding two struggling little dragons. There is a convex tenon under the bird's belly, which fits into the mother mouth of the pot body. The neck of the pot is long and tilted to one side, with a tiger-shaped handle on the bulging belly, with a ring in the tiger's mouth, connected to the lid bird's tail by a chain. There is a circle of rope patterns under the rim of the pot mouth, and 4 groups of nipple-shaped coiled snake patterns on the belly. The gourd pot is related to the "gourd star" in ancient Chinese astronomy.

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