ABSTRACT
Potters (taoren 1 ) make the boiler (or the steamer with a tripod) (yan 2 ), which holds two fu. 3 Its wall is a half cun in thickness, and the upper rim is one cun thick. The basin (pen 4 ), likewise, contains two fu. Its wall is half a cun thick, and the upper rim is one cun thick. The steaming-vessel (zeng 5 ), on which there are seven bottom eyelets, also holds the same quantity and has the same dimensions in thickness with the boiler (yan). The cooking tripod (with hollow legs) (li 6 ) holds five hu. 7 The wall thickness is a half cun, and the upper rim is one cun thick. The earthen utensil (yu 8 ) holds two hu. The wall thickness is half a cun, and the upper rim is one cun in thickness. A proto-porcelain gui of the Western Zhou dynasty unearthed in 1964 from Pangjiagou 龐家溝, Luoyang 洛陽, Henan province. Height 15.5 cm. From Jun Wenren (1988, Fig. 34). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203108987/612abb55-c07d-4e37-8f9c-662e43d932cb/content/fig18_5_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/> A proto-porcelain dou of the Western Zhou dynasty unearthed in 1964 from Pangjiagou 龐家溝, Luoyang 洛陽, Henan province. Height 7.6 cm. From Jun Wenren (1988, Fig. 35). https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203108987/612abb55-c07d-4e37-8f9c-662e43d932cb/content/fig18_6_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
