Fangding food vessel
Fangding food vessel
3D
Published 2018-11-13T16:35:47+00:00
This fangding, or “squared ding,” shows an interesting development in ding design. Although it is still a raised boxlike vessel on four columnar legs, the decoration shows a tendency toward the abstract, which may have been influenced by contemporary textile design. The principal surface displays a rectangular field of interlocked Ts on a ground of squared spirals framed on three sides by rows of spikes. Long-tailed birds flank the short flanges forming the central ridge of a rudimentary taotie mask. Notably, all the linear patterns on this small vessel have been filled with a black carbon-based substance, to give added emphasis to the graphic designs. Though not widespread, this technique can be found in other late Shang and early Western Zhou bronzes.
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This object was scanned by The Minneapolis Institute of Art
| Date published | 13/11/2018 |
| Title | Fangding food vessel |
| Date | 11th century BC |
| Dimension | 21.7 × 16.9 × 13.4 cm |
| Accession | 50.46.81 |
| Period | Ancient |
| Medium | Bronze |
| Credit | Bequest of Alfred F. Pillsbury |
| Record | https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1143/fangding-food-vessel-china |
| Artist | Unknown artist |
| Place | Minneapolis Institute of Art |
