A WELL-CAST ARCHAIC BRONZE LIBATION VESSEL, JUE SHANG DYNASTY (c.1600-c.1100 BC) The deep U-shaped body raised on three blade supports and crisply cast in thread relief with two pairs of birds reserved on a leiwen band, one pair confronted on a shallow flange, the other on the 'C'-shaped handle issuing from a bovine mask, the rim rising to a peak opposite the long spout flanked by a pair of posts surmounted by conical caps, with a two-character pictogram cast beneath the handle, with some original bright patina and green encrustation 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
A WELL-CAST ARCHAIC BRONZE LIBATION VESSEL, JUE SHANG DYNASTY (c.1600-c.1100 BC) The deep U-shaped body raised on three blade supports and crisply cast in thread relief with two pairs of birds reserved on a leiwen band, one pair confronted on a shallow flange, the other on the 'C'-shaped handle issuing from a bovine mask, the rim rising to a peak opposite the long spout flanked by a pair of posts surmounted by conical caps, with a two-character pictogram cast beneath the handle, with some original bright patina and green encrustation 7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
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