Yen Steamer with the Character

Resource Identifier:

R020014

Description:

This piece is composed of a tseng cooking vessel and a li cauldron cast together. There was probably a grill in between, which is now missing. Two rounds of vague bowstring lines appear on the surface. A small vertical line and two dots between the two rounds of bowstring lines roughly represent the nose and the eyes of an animal mask. Inside the steamer is an inscription “ *”。

Date:

Mid 11th century-771 B.C.

Format:

Height 30.2, diameter of mouth 17.0 cm.

Coverage:

Tomb M60, Hsin-ts’un, Chun-hsien, Honan