Western Zhou Dynasty Fish-shaped Zun

Age: Western Zhou, Grade 1

Specifications: Total height 22.1cm, diameter 19.1cm, belly depth 18cm, weight 2134g

Excavation site: Excavated from Tomb No. 4 of Zhuyuangou National Cemetery in Baoji City in 1980

Zun is an important wine container among the bronze vessels of Shang and Zhou dynasties, popular from Shang to the middle of Western Zhou Dynasty. The body of Yuji Zun is rectangular, flat and oval, with curled and outward-flashing rim, narrow neck, drooping lower abdomen, four flat tiger feet under the abdomen, and a beast head handle on the belly. The neck is decorated with convex string pattern, and the abdomen is decorated with a circle of Kuilong Kuifeng pattern, with cloud and thunder pattern as the background. The bottom of the vessel is cast with two lines of six characters "Yuji Zha (made) Baolu Yi".