A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The body cast with a band of narrow vertical ribs below a band of alternating dragons with backward-turned heads and whorl motifs reserved on a leiwen ground, centered on two sides by a bottle-horn dragon mask and on the other two sides by hare's heads that surmount the loop handles cast on the sides with long scrolls and on the bottom with pendent hooked tabs, the foot encircled by pairs of serpents separated by simplified masks on a leiwen band, the bottom of the interior cast with a four-character inscription, with olive-brown patina 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) across handles
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The body cast with a band of narrow vertical ribs below a band of alternating dragons with backward-turned heads and whorl motifs reserved on a leiwen ground, centered on two sides by a bottle-horn dragon mask and on the other two sides by hare's heads that surmount the loop handles cast on the sides with long scrolls and on the bottom with pendent hooked tabs, the foot encircled by pairs of serpents separated by simplified masks on a leiwen band, the bottom of the interior cast with a four-character inscription, with olive-brown patina 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) across handles
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