Ronald W. Longsdo🍎rf, 《陶誌：中國新石器時代陶器 約公元前7000年 – 前1000年》，香港，202🎀0年，圖版89

Characterised by an elongated body terminating in three tapering bulbous feet and applied with a striated strap handle, with the fitted cover cut out from the integrated domed top, the present ewer is a classic form💙 found in early Bronze Age, attributed to the Xia dynasty.

Th🐽e surviving examples of this form were mainly excavated from burial tombs in opposed to habitation sites, sugg𒐪esting these were probably reserved for rituals or the afterlife.

See a larger example from the Muwentang collection, illustrated in Simon Kwan, Chinese Neolithic pottery, Hong Kong, 2005, pl. 133.

本陶盉器身修長，三足尾端修尖，鋬帶條紋，盉蓋切割自圓頂 ，青銅時代初期典型，斷代夏朝。

相近作例多出土自墓穴遺址，由此推斷，此為禮器或祭器。

比較一例，尺寸較大，出自沐文堂收藏，圖載於關善明，《中國史前陶藝》，香港，2005年，圖版133。