A fine and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, (gu) Shang Dynasty, Erligang Period the columnar body supported on a tall splayed foot flaring to a wide trumpet mouth, encircled around the mid-section with three raised filets above a narrow band enclosing two taotie masks, each of the faces cast in broad relief with large bosses for eyes and hooked scroll bodies centered by low flanges, all raised on a hollowed foot, pierced with a broad openwork band of enlarged leiwen scrolls, above a further register of taotie masks, the surface covered with extensive malachite encrustation 6 7/8 in., 17.5 cm
A fine and rare archaic bronze ritual wine vessel, (gu) Shang Dynasty, Erligang Period the columnar body supported on a tall splayed foot flaring to a wide trumpet mouth, encircled around the mid-section with three raised filets above a narrow band enclosing two taotie masks, each of the faces cast in broad relief with large bosses for eyes and hooked scroll bodies centered by low flanges, all raised on a hollowed foot, pierced with a broad openwork band of enlarged leiwen scrolls, above a further register of taotie masks, the surface covered with extensive malachite encrustation 6 7/8 in., 17.5 cm
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