A FINE AND RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty, 12th-11th century BC The broad vessel finely cast around the exterior in medium and shallow relief with three registers of decoration, the spreading base and central section with two taotie masks with large pronounced eyes, the flaring neck with upright cicada panels enclosing animal scrolls, all raised on a finely cast leiwen ground and divided by four vertical flanges extending beyond the broad rim and cast on the sides with scrolling key-pattern, the bronze with a fine pale green smooth and glossy patina with areas of reddish brown encrustation, the base with a crisply cast three-character pictogram, gong fu xin 13¼ in. (33 cm.) high
A FINE AND RARE ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, ZUN Late Shang/early Western Zhou Dynasty, 12th-11th century BC The broad vessel finely cast around the exterior in medium and shallow relief with three registers of decoration, the spreading base and central section with two taotie masks with large pronounced eyes, the flaring neck with upright cicada panels enclosing animal scrolls, all raised on a finely cast leiwen ground and divided by four vertical flanges extending beyond the broad rim and cast on the sides with scrolling key-pattern, the bronze with a fine pale green smooth and glossy patina with areas of reddish brown encrustation, the base with a crisply cast three-character pictogram, gong fu xin 13¼ in. (33 cm.) high
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