Bushell, Stephen W. (Stephen Wootton), 1844-1908, Victoria and Albert Museum · London : Printed for H.M. Stationery Off. by Wyman · leaf 178
s bowl be handed down for ten thousand years andbe everlastingly treasured and used by sons and grandsons ! The above long inscription gives a vivid sketch of the relationsbetween the sovereign and one of his principal feudatories in theseventh century B.C., which might be filled in from the… … Fig. 50.—Inscription of Sacrificial Bowl (Fio. 40).Attiiljuted to the year B.C. 632.No. 174 !I9. BRONZE. 87 the founrlor of the Chou dynasty, on his son Tang Shu Yu, whoseshrine is referred to in the inscription. The most celebrated ofhis descendants was Wen Kung, who ruled the ]irincipality…
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