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scribed with the name of King Yichu of Xu, who is
mentioned in the Zuo zhuan (Chronicle of Zuo)
in the sixth year of Zhao Gong (536 BCE)/ All this
evidence suggests that bronze braziers may have
been a southeastern invention. By the fifth and
fourth centuries BCE, however, braziers are common
elements of tomb paraphernalia in both north and
8
south. A brazier from a Chu state tomb at Xinyang
Changtaiguan, whose form resembles that of the
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Marquis Yi example, still contained charcoal. CM
1 Excavated in 1978 (C 166 -168); reported: Hubei 1989,
1:244-247, figs. 141:1,142:2-3; 143-144, and 2: pi. 81:1-3.
Inscribed on the base of the brazier, the handle of the
shovel, and the mouth of the dustpan: "Marquis Yi of Zeng
commissioned [this article]; may he possess and use it
for eternity."
2 The technique is discussed in Weber 1973,105-106. See
also Rawson 1987^ 52-53.
3 See Hubei 1991, 2: pi. 53:1. A bronze dustpan (not, however,
imitative of basketwork) was also found in the tomb
(pi. 34).
4 See Zhongguo i98ob, pi. 63:2-3. A bronze shovel was
discovered in a mid-seventh-century BCE tomb at Pingxi
near Xinyang in southern Henan province. See Xinyang
1989^ 22, fig. 4:5.
5 See Guan 1929, i: pi. 54. For a discussion of the Xinzheng
bronzes and their dating, see So 1995, 22 and 422.
6 See So 1995, 422. As So points out, this piece is closely
related to the decoration on a bronze jar from Gushi
Hougudui. See Gushi 1981,1-8, pi. 3:3.
7 See Jiangxi 1980,13 -15, pi. 2:2 - 3. Like the example from
Marquis Yi's tomb, the brazier was accompanied by a per-
forated shovel. An Early Eastern Zhou period dish with
openwork sides from Tunxi Yiqi M3 (implausibly identified
as a pan in Chinese publications) may be an early form of
such braziers. See Anhui 1987, no. 39.
8 A brazier was excavated from an early fifth-century BCE
tomb at Gushi Hougudui in southern Henan province.
See Gushi 1981, pi. 2:4. For a brazier from Jixian Shanbiao-
zhen in Henan province, see Guo Baojun 1981, pi. 82:1. A
brazier with chain handles, dated to the late sixth century
BCE, was excavated from Changzhi Fenshuiling Tomb 26:
see Shanxi 1964,120, fig. 9:3. For fourth-century BCE Chu
examples from Baoshan and Jiangling, see Hubei 1991, 2,
pi. 34:4, and Hubei 1996, pi. 13:4.
9 Henan 1986, pi. 43:1; the dustpan is illustrated in pi. 41:4.

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