DING GALLERY

As promised a Gallery in chronological order showing the #Ding Vessel Shape in Ceramics and Metal over the centuries
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NEOLITHIC

XIA DYNASTY

Yes these first two probably also developed to the gui and other shapes.

SHANG BRONZE

Spring and Autumn Period 

A traditional style ink painting.

Ming Dehua Ceramic Ding 

Finally DING as a word / character also referred to square vessels sometimes 

Or this 

Usually a Tripod of some kind though!

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Zun Vessels - Images

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A gallery of images of #ZUN Vessels.

They were not all animal shaped.

Check out my following posts on zun and you and jiu. 

This shape is very similar to the seal script shape for vessels.

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Ding Sequence Four

Ding Sequence Four

Some metal smith seems to realised that the moulds for metal casting allowed one to be have stable metal forms without having to worry about cracks.

You can make a shape like this in clay but you would have to join several slabs and either use a press mould for the sides or press on many smaller pieces.

I have seen vessels in metal and clay very similar to the fang ding used to hold incense sticks in Taoist and buddhist temples.

Ding Sequence Three

The elite of the Shang Dynasty revered objects of bronze and jade suggesting gold was relatively scarce  though it may be that gold was easier to melt down and recycle or traded for jade and tin and other minerals?

Whether decorated or not the shape of the ding stayed very consistent down thru the centuries

Here are two later examples

A Dehau Ming period copy of archaic forms in porcelain

this is a late qing copy of a fang ding the subject of the next blog

Ding Sequence Two

Ding Sequence Two

The Hanzi

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