AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL BLADE (KUI) LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH - 11TH CENTURY BC finely cast of triangular shape with matching relief on both sides and an upturned curly-bracket-form shield rising from the base, spreading across the base of each side a wide taotie mask in high relief over a leiwen ground, five smaller low-relief taotie masks descending along the central axis, with mask-like imagery incised in the adjacent space, pierced in three places, the tortoise shell-colored patina under malachite encrustations Length 10 1/2 in., 26.5 cm
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL BLADE (KUI) LATE SHANG - EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH - 11TH CENTURY BC finely cast of triangular shape with matching relief on both sides and an upturned curly-bracket-form shield rising from the base, spreading across the base of each side a wide taotie mask in high relief over a leiwen ground, five smaller low-relief taotie masks descending along the central axis, with mask-like imagery incised in the adjacent space, pierced in three places, the tortoise shell-colored patina under malachite encrustations Length 10 1/2 in., 26.5 cm
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