A rare archaic bronze wine vessel and cover, (fangyi) Late Shang Dynasty, 13th - 11th Century BC the thin walls of the four-sided vessel cast on each side in raised relief with a central panel of a taotie animal mask with protruding eyes and centered on a raised notched flange, set between a top register containing a pair of confronting long-tailed birds, and a pair of confronting dragons skirting the foot and separated by a small open arch, all reserved on a plain ground and further divided on the corners with vertical notched flanges, the tectiform cover similarly cast with inverted masks on each side and surmounted by a knop echoing the form of the cover and cast with two small masks, the olive-green patina covered with light malachite and cuprite encrustation, one wall of the interior of the vessel cast with a single pictogram (2) Height 8 in., 20.3 cm
A rare archaic bronze wine vessel and cover, (fangyi) Late Shang Dynasty, 13th - 11th Century BC the thin walls of the four-sided vessel cast on each side in raised relief with a central panel of a taotie animal mask with protruding eyes and centered on a raised notched flange, set between a top register containing a pair of confronting long-tailed birds, and a pair of confronting dragons skirting the foot and separated by a small open arch, all reserved on a plain ground and further divided on the corners with vertical notched flanges, the tectiform cover similarly cast with inverted masks on each side and surmounted by a knop echoing the form of the cover and cast with two small masks, the olive-green patina covered with light malachite and cuprite encrustation, one wall of the interior of the vessel cast with a single pictogram (2) Height 8 in., 20.3 cm
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