Ding

A Chinese tripod bowl with solid legs. From the Neolithic it was made of ceramic and from the Shang period it occurred in bronze; there were also quadrapods.

A Chinese tripod bowl with solid legs (compare li). The dingis almost unknown at Yangshao sites but is ubiquitous in pottery of the east-coast Neolithic and of the Henan Longshan culture (sccLongshan, Hemudu). It was made in both pottery and bronze versions throughout the Chinese Bronze Age (see RITUAL VESSELS).