What is the connection and difference between the Crane Square Pot and the Lotus Crane Square Pot?

From the point of view of the shape of the Lotus Crane Square Pot, generous, elegant, beautiful and novel, for the flat square body, the pot is tall, the structure is tight, the main part of its body for the late Western Zhou dynasty since the popular shape of the square pot, the neck sloping shoulders, the belly drooping drums, the center of gravity in the lower abdomen, with a cover, double ear, foot ring. From the top of the lid, he is composed of 10 groups of two sets of parallel lotus petal-shaped decorations, standing carving double lotus petals on the openwork dragon pattern. The center of the lotus flower has a small movable cover, on which stands a crane, head high and wings, like singing and dancing. Lotus fat blooming, crane standing flower core, a small, a small, 1 static 1 dynamic, a flower and a bird, with skillful. Bronze artisans on the crane sculpture is particularly successful, it shape and God are good, lifelike, it seems that if someone fierce drink sound, it will lift the wings and fly. Mr. Guo Moruo once said that the crane on the lid of the pot "breaks through the ancient age of the Mengmeng, is full of ambition, looking out of the corner of one's eye". From a decorative point of view, his decorations are extremely complex and marvelously designed, especially notable for the dragon motifs that adorn the upper and lower parts of the vessel and various additional decorations. The entire body of the square pot is decorated with coiled chi dragons, which are intertwined, regardless of priority, interspersed up and down, and extended in all directions, as if striving for a vigorous will to live. The body is decorated with dragons and phoenixes carved in shallow relief with shaded lines. Some of them are in the form of birds and beasts, gnarled and coiled, covering the body of the pot. The neck of the pot on all sides of the dragon (beast) shaped ears, two positive side of the dragon for the look back and look back constitutes a copper kettle double ears, with a flower crown-shaped angle, the volume of the larger longer, the crown and the body are hollowed out exquisite pattern. The lower corners of the pot's abdomen is decorated with small winged dragons, animal horns rolled, horn end such as a flower-shaped, for the return of the head to climb the shape. The foot has two hook head looking forward to the dragon, the body for the scale pattern, bowed and curled tail, head turned to the outside, the tongue, there are branch-shaped horns. Supporting the body of the dragon and the body of the pot all attached to the dragon, beasts climbing upward momentum, each other, *** with the viewer visually caused by the pot body light, the feeling of movement. The best part is the double-layered lotus petals on the top of the lid and the standing crane standing on the lotus core with its wings ready to fly. The fresh, free and lively mood they display sweeps away the solemn and stereotypical style of previous decorative crafts, marking a new beginning for Chinese decorative crafts. From the color point of view is the bronze color is green-gray, after a long time of oxidation, the surface of the oxidized and produced by the color is very beautiful green or green spots. From the point of view of the production process, the process uses a variety of techniques such as round carving, shallow relief, fine engraving, welding, casting skills are excellent and exquisite, Lotus Crane square pot using a variety of techniques such as round carving, shallow relief, fine engraving, welding and other casting. The craftsmanship is superb, reflecting the times of the Spring and Autumn period of great change. The art is skillfully conceived and contrasts with the heavy and solemn bronzes of the Shang Dynasty.