Fangding food vessel, 11th century BCE, 8 9/16 × 6 5/8 × 5 1/4 in., lb. ( × × cm, kg), Bronze, China, 11th century BCE, 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

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