What is the name of this tripod? What does the pattern mean? Answer valuable additional points.

This is the "Thick Fang Ding" of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

Fang Ding is a bronze ware in the early Western Zhou Dynasty. The height is 2 1.3 cm, the longitudinal length of the mouth is 13.3 cm, and the transverse length of the mouth is 17.5 cm. Now it is collected in Shanghai Museum.

Used for cooking utensils. The mouth is folded outward along the edge, and the ears are straight and divided from top to bottom. There are four slender column feet under it and ridges at the four corners. The four walls of the abdomen are decorated with animal faces, and the long horns of the animal faces hang down on both sides.

There is an inscription with five lines and 34 words on the inner wall, which tells the story of Wang Shoulian's gift during the Zhou Dynasty.

This device is exquisitely cast, recorded in the Song Dynasty and passed down to this day.

Animal face pattern, also known as gluttonous pattern, is one of the common patterns on bronze ware. It was first seen in pottery and jade articles of Liangzhu culture in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and prevailed in bronzes from Shang Dynasty to early Western Zhou Dynasty. The facial patterns of some animals include the trunk and the feet of animals.

Gluttony was formed by ancient people combining the characteristics of various wild animals in nature with their own imagination. Among them, the animal's face is huge, exaggerated and decorative, and it is often used as the main decoration of utensils.

The animal face decoration of Shang and Zhou bronzes reflected the worship of natural gods at that time, so it had a mysterious and solemn atmosphere. However, there are different opinions about what these mysterious decorative patterns represent.