A large archaic bronze ritual food steamer vessel (Yan) Western Zhou dynasty, 11th / 10th century BC the body composed of a lower section divided into three bulbous lobes tapering to three columnar feet, cast on each lobe with a large bovine taotie with thick horns, split-eye bosses and fanged mouths, rising to a pinched waist before the deep bell-shaped upper section encircled by three taotie composed of long-tailed zoomorphs cast in thin lines just below the flared mouthrim, the outer faces of the high arch handles marked by concentric grooves, the surface with patches of malachite encrustation 16 in., 40.5 cm
A large archaic bronze ritual food steamer vessel (Yan) Western Zhou dynasty, 11th / 10th century BC the body composed of a lower section divided into three bulbous lobes tapering to three columnar feet, cast on each lobe with a large bovine taotie with thick horns, split-eye bosses and fanged mouths, rising to a pinched waist before the deep bell-shaped upper section encircled by three taotie composed of long-tailed zoomorphs cast in thin lines just below the flared mouthrim, the outer faces of the high arch handles marked by concentric grooves, the surface with patches of malachite encrustation 16 in., 40.5 cm
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