Chinese Bronzes - Ritual Bronze Vessels

Fu 簠 - a food container from early Zhou to Warring States deriving from a square gui type with a large, slightly flattened corpus. The left example is one of the few still existing pieces (height 36 cm). The character indicates that in old times this vessel had a bamboo part, but especially for this vessel type exist many different characters.

Fu 鋪 - a kind of dou with a short, perforated handle and a flat bowl, from Western Zhou to Spring and Autumn period.