A Large Finely Cast Bronze Ritual Vessel, Hu Shang dynasty, 13th/12th century BC The pear-shaped body of oval section decorated with bands of varying width finely cast with dragons reserved on leiwen grounds, on all of the bands, but one, the dragons with rounded eyes are confronted on a shallow flange to form taotie masks, and in each band the dragons and other decoration is somewhat different: in the widest band on the lower body the dragon's horns are formed by smaller dragons, the narrow band above is cast with four pairs of elongated dragons confronted on each side as well as on the narrow sides, the wide band on the shoulder has a small descending dragon beneath the tail of each large dragon, and on the band encircling the flared mouth there is a small bottle-horn dragon positioned behind each dragon and above each of the dragon-head lug handles which interrupt a band of small birds, the whole raised on a slightly flared pedestal foot also encircled by a band of taotie masks incorporating long-tailed birds with backward- turned, crested heads, the interior of the neck cast with a pictogram, with mottled grey-green patina and some azurite and malachite encrustation 155/8in. (39.7cm) high, wood box
A Large Finely Cast Bronze Ritual Vessel, Hu Shang dynasty, 13th/12th century BC The pear-shaped body of oval section decorated with bands of varying width finely cast with dragons reserved on leiwen grounds, on all of the bands, but one, the dragons with rounded eyes are confronted on a shallow flange to form taotie masks, and in each band the dragons and other decoration is somewhat different: in the widest band on the lower body the dragon's horns are formed by smaller dragons, the narrow band above is cast with four pairs of elongated dragons confronted on each side as well as on the narrow sides, the wide band on the shoulder has a small descending dragon beneath the tail of each large dragon, and on the band encircling the flared mouth there is a small bottle-horn dragon positioned behind each dragon and above each of the dragon-head lug handles which interrupt a band of small birds, the whole raised on a slightly flared pedestal foot also encircled by a band of taotie masks incorporating long-tailed birds with backward- turned, crested heads, the interior of the neck cast with a pictogram, with mottled grey-green patina and some azurite and malachite encrustation 155/8in. (39.7cm) high, wood box
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