A large inscribed bronze temple bell, Dated Tianqi bingyin year, corresponding to 1626 | 明天啟丙寅年（1626年） 銅交龍鈕鐘

A large inscribed bronze temple bell

Dated Tianqi bingyin year, corresponding to 1626

明天啟丙寅年（1626年） 銅交龍鈕鐘

cast around the lower body with two inscriptions reading Tianqi bingyin nian mengqiu jiri dan (on the first day of the seventh month of the bingyin year of Tianqi) and Shanghai xian ershi baolongwangmiao dizi Lu Ziqing zhi (disciple Lu Ziqing commissioned [this bell] for the Dragon King Temples at the twentieth bao in the Shanghai county)

銘文：

天啟丙寅年孟秋吉日旦 上海縣二十保龍王廟弟子陸子清置

皇圖永固 帝道遐昌 道日增輝 法輪常轉

Height 14⅞ in., 38 cm