Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Utensils, Volume One

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...its unique characteristics.

There are twenty-six tripods from the Shang dynasty, eighty-one tripods from the Zhou dynasty, eighteen tripods from the Han dynasty, and one tripod from the Tang dynasty.

Their illustrations are already provided in exhaustive detail within the Illustrated Catalogue of Examined Antiquities original: Bogu Tu (博古圖). This refers to the Xuanhe Bogu Tu, a massive 30-volume catalog of the imperial bronze collection compiled in the early 12th century. It was the "gold standard" for antiquarian study when the Sancai Tuhui was published..