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  1. "Mao Kung" Ting Vessel, 
  2. Inscription 
  3. King Hsuan
  4. Late Western Chou Dynasty
  5. (ca. 9th-8th century B.C.)
  6.      The "Mao Kung" ting 
  7. vessel bears a 32-column
  8. inscription totalling 497 
  9. characters.  The style of 
  10. the characters,  in seal 
  11. script calligraphy, matches 
  12. that generally found on 
  13. bronze  bells  and  ting 
  14. vessels. Broadly speaking, 
  15. all inscriptions on Shang 
  16. and  Chou  bronzes  are
  17. written   in  seal  script 
  18. calligraphy.