Bird-shaped spoon

Bird-shaped spoon, early Warring States Period, high 7.9 cm, length 17 cm, diameter of 8 cm.

Spoon are oval, won at the end of Quanzu, who is the front of the processes of bird-shaped Diaoshi, after a single stalk contrast, a flat-shaped handles, on the Jin-Wen Fan Ru.

drinker spoon is the scoop. This spoon is Quanzu, Wen Wen Jian placed on, is an alcohol can be used to direct the artifacts. Western Zhou Dynasty unearthed in Shaanxi an era of similar objects - "father of Grand Mercure Baigong", with the inscriptions on the mind: "Baigong father for the Grand Mercure, and satisfy the use discretion." Inscriptions in the said items such as Jue, So This fact has been spoon with the functions of the Grand Mercure Cup.