A WELL-CAST ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU SHANG DYNASTY The slender beaker-form vessel with tall trumpet neck decorated with four slender blades cast in low relief with parallel hooked lines enclosing leiwen , above a band of cicadas, the central boss with taotie masks with raised eyes and C-shaped horns divided by shallow flanges above two cruciform apertures, the spreading foot with further taotie masks in graduated relief on a delicately drawn ground below beaked dragons, the yellowish-green patina with large areas of malachite encrustation on the neck and inside the mouth, pictogram inside the foot 11 5/8in. (29.5cm.) high
A WELL-CAST ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, GU SHANG DYNASTY The slender beaker-form vessel with tall trumpet neck decorated with four slender blades cast in low relief with parallel hooked lines enclosing leiwen , above a band of cicadas, the central boss with taotie masks with raised eyes and C-shaped horns divided by shallow flanges above two cruciform apertures, the spreading foot with further taotie masks in graduated relief on a delicately drawn ground below beaked dragons, the yellowish-green patina with large areas of malachite encrustation on the neck and inside the mouth, pictogram inside the foot 11 5/8in. (29.5cm.) high
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