Photo Notes 小克鼎
Small ke tripod, high 35.4cm, width 33.6cm, 12.54kg.
Ding Shuo circular, abdominal, double ear, hoof-shaped foot. Ear ornaments three head Kuiwen, collar theft curved lines, abdominal decorative moire belt, foot upper decorative beast head pattern.
Wall inscriptions cast 8 lines of 72 characters:
Only king in twenty and September three, King
In Zhou, Wang life meal tiphook homes
Life in a week, Yu are eight Division
Years, grams I imperial progenitor season
Zong Yi po. The daily I g
Monarch Lu sue, with dielectric Kang, pure,
Venerability, permanent life, spirit. Million years
Boundless, the sons of Sun Yongbao g..
The inscription is: in the Zhou king for twenty-three years in September, the king in the West week old is Zhou, Zhou Wang ordered meal tiphook to the East, Luoyang issued an order into weeks, purge the king forces into Zhou Bashi. In the same year as the number G memorial for his great grandfather and placed in the temple of season valuable sacrificial vessel. G daily use it to Jixiang ancestors, while also daily in his master the king of Zhou 's heavy. Used to ask Kang Shun, bliss, old longevity, longevity, hospice. Let g Wannianwujiang, G future generations forever treasure with the sacrificial vessel.
Chloe Ding Chuan sixteen years Guangxu ( 1890) in Shaanxi Fufeng County of Famen Temple bronzes of any village. In the inscription the device owner for the" meal tiphook", so that G tripod, also known as dietary tiphook tripod. As with big G Ding distinction, also known as Chloe tripod. Chloe tripod shape male and heavy, smooth rough pattern, is typical of the late Western Zhou bronze tripod.