Bronze square tripod, Early Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC - 1400 BC)
Bronze square tripod, Early Shang Dynasty (about 1600 BC - 1400 BC)0 The overall height is 86.5 cm, and the mouth length is 61 cm. Unearthed in Zhangzhai South Street, Zhengzhou, Henan in 1974. Henan Museum Collection.
The mouth of the tripod is rectangular, with a pair of arched ears on the top, a deep abdomen, a slightly introverted abdominal wall, a flat bottom, and four hollow cylindrical feet with upper thickness and lower thickness. A set of single-line animal face patterns is cast on each of the four sides and four corners of the body, and the two sides and lower parts of each side are decorated with milk dice patterns, and the upper parts of the feet are decorated with animal face patterns. At the time of excavation, there were smoke marks on the bottom and feet of the vessel.