To get everything ready for the birdseed mixture, I first lined my pot with some wax paper. One handy thing about using a flower pot as your mold is the hole that’s already in the bottom, which will come in handy later in the process when you are inserting your string for hanging your bird bell. Some quick measuring on my part showed my pot to be 4″ high and 4½” across the top. To make a homemade birdseed bell I used a clay flower pot that was labeled as a 4.3″ size. And although I used a clay flowerpot, you could probably use some other type of disposable container for this method too, such as a plastic yogurt container, or maybe one of those red Solo cups. Of course the first challenge when you want to make a homemade birdseed bell is how can you get that shape? I decided I could put my recipe mixture into a small flowerpot to get something of the same sort of shape and was pretty satisfied with my final result, although I wish the bottom was just a bit wider like the store-bought type. This year I got out my recipe for homemade birdseed ornaments again too but then decided to do something a little different with that recipe – – I decided I could turn this mixture into homemade birdseed bells! Most of the time I make my DIY suet cakes which are fun to make in different flavors and that I put in my little suet cake cage out on the tree. Rows of identically decorated vessels and massed groups of bells would be produced in this way and must have been intended to impress an audience.This is the time of year when I love to make some homemade creations for the birds to enjoy. Further, the one pattern block could be used to produce strips of clay to decorate the moulds for several different bells.
Thus all the narrow borders on the bell are filled with the same dragon interlace, derived from a single pattern block, from which were produced strips of clay to set in the necessary parts of the mould. The designs with which it is covered were produced using pattern blocks that is, small blocks of clay were carved as the masters from which to impress strips of negative design in clay to fill out the moulds. The area is renowned for exceptional bells such as this one, which also illustrates methods of mechanical production that had become the norm. However, these five can only be a small portion of the original assemblage.ĭuring the Eastern Zhou period, casting in north China came to be centred on the state of Jin in present-day Shanxi province. Watson has suggested that five bells known from Western collections belonged to the same set as this bell. In large sets of bells, such as that from the tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng, bo were included with sets of yong zhong. Two exquisite cast dragons make a loop handle, and large relief faces, like those at the lip, lie across the top of the bell.Īs the bell hangs from a loop a set on the top flat surface rather than from one attached to a tubular handle, it is known as a bo or as a niu zhong, to distinguish it from the other type, known as yong zhong. Eighteen bosses on each side of the bell are made as small coiled creatures, with unassuming interlace between the rows. The rest of the lower border is filled with invented beasts. In addition to the snake-like horns of the creature two large scaly dragon sprout from the centres of the faces.
Large taotie faces above the mouth of the bell amplify features already seen on the hu. Like the Zhao Meng jie hu this imposing bell was probably a product of the Houma foundries of the Jin state.
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