椭圆形铜(金和),有别于圆形敦,因其形状不甚规则,且自名之器甚少,故自宋以来称谓不一。《考古图》、《续考古图》命之为杯,《博古图录》称为卮,《西清古鉴》以舟称之,《美帝国主义劫掠的我国殷周铜器集录》称其为椭器,马承源《中国青铜器》将其分为椭杯与铘两类器物,《故宫铜器图录》则以敦称之。自清以来沿用《西清古鉴》定名称之为舟者较众,近年来,
The bronze he-bowl was invented by Dong Yi (lit. Eastern Barbarians) people around the Western Zhou and Eastern Zhou Periods, and diffused into the Central Plains and other regions in the early to mid Spring-and-Autumn Period and got popular there, and gradually vanished in the late Warring-States Period. The quantity of he unearthed was only second to that of ding-tripods and vases among the bronzes in the Eastern Zhou Perind.