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An illustration of a ten-thousand-catty bronze ding-tripod being cast by Chinese metal workers, from the Tiangong Kaiwu encyclopedia published in 1637, written by the Ming Dynasty encyclopedist Song Yingxing (1587-1666). This illustration appears on page 161 of E-tu Zen Sun and Shiou-Chuan Sun's English translation of the Tiangong Kaiwu (Pennsylvania University Press, 1966).

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