A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN) LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY of cylindrical form, boldly cast around the slightly bulging waist with two taotie masks with rounded eyes and ‘C’-shaped horns, the splayed foot decorated with further taotie masks with rectangular slit pupils, upright horns and hooked jaws, below two bow-string bands interrupted by two cruciform apertures, the flaring neck with four upright blades filled with upward-looking taotie masks above a band of two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on a dense leiwen ground, the lower three registers divided by protruding notched vertical flanges, wood stand, two Japanese wood boxes (6) Height 13 in., 33 cm
A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN) LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY of cylindrical form, boldly cast around the slightly bulging waist with two taotie masks with rounded eyes and ‘C’-shaped horns, the splayed foot decorated with further taotie masks with rectangular slit pupils, upright horns and hooked jaws, below two bow-string bands interrupted by two cruciform apertures, the flaring neck with four upright blades filled with upward-looking taotie masks above a band of two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on a dense leiwen ground, the lower three registers divided by protruding notched vertical flanges, wood stand, two Japanese wood boxes (6) Height 13 in., 33 cm
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