An archaic bronze tripod vessel and cover (Ding), Eastern Zhou dynasty, early Warring States period | 東周 戰國初 青銅魚紋鼎

Collection of Felix Guggenheim (1904-1976).

Compare a similar bronze ding and cover also decorated with fish motifs, illustrated in Chen Mengjia, Haiwai zhongguo tongqi tulu [Chinese bronzes from oversea collections], vol. 1, Beijing, 2017, fig. 10; and another from the MacLean Collection, published in Richard A. Pegg and Zhang Lidong, The MacLean Collection: Chinese Ritual Bronzes, Chicago, 2010, pl. 46.