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Square cauldron (fang ding) with thread-relief frieze of
animal masks, and nipple pattern

Shang period (ca. i6oo-ca. noo bce)
Bronze; h. 82 x w. 50 cm
Unearthed in 1990 at Qian village, Pinglu county,

Shanxi Province
Sh.mxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Taiyuan