LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

Two bronze jiao of similar size and with very similar decoration, and also cast with the same clan sign (lu) under the handle, are in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated by Wu Zhenfeng, Shangzhou qingtongqi mingwen ji tuxiang jicheng (Complete Collection of Inscriptions and Images of the Shang and Zhou Bronzes), vol. 17, Shanghai, 2012, pp. 146 and 148, nos. 8708 and 8710. (Fig. 1) Also illustrated, p. 147, no. 8709, is another very similar jiao bearing the same clan sign in the Shanghai Museum.