A very large archaic bronze tripod food vessel (ding) Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty, 11th / 10th century BC the deep U-shaped body cast below the flattened everted rim and pair of upright loop handles with a single wide register of six large taotie masks, comprised of slit boss eyes and hooked ribbons cast with C-scrolls indicating the nose and horns, centered on thick notched flanges and reserved on a fine leiwen ground, all above three tapered columnar legs, each accented with a further taotie mask centrally divided by a notched flange above two raised filets diameter: 11/ 18 in., 28.4 cm
A very large archaic bronze tripod food vessel (ding) Late Shang / early Western Zhou dynasty, 11th / 10th century BC the deep U-shaped body cast below the flattened everted rim and pair of upright loop handles with a single wide register of six large taotie masks, comprised of slit boss eyes and hooked ribbons cast with C-scrolls indicating the nose and horns, centered on thick notched flanges and reserved on a fine leiwen ground, all above three tapered columnar legs, each accented with a further taotie mask centrally divided by a notched flange above two raised filets diameter: 11/ 18 in., 28.4 cm
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