AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, GUI EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, (1100-771 B.C.) The bowl standing on a high, slightly splayed foot and cast with two animal-head handles, the waisted neck cast with a frieze comprising bovine masks, raised roundels and studs on a leiwen ground, the base cast with a band of 'dissolved' taotie and dragons, the bronze with a greyish-brown variagated gun-metal, malachite and ferrous-coloured patina, the centre of the interior cast with an inscription 12 in. (30.5 cm.) across handles
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, GUI EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, (1100-771 B.C.) The bowl standing on a high, slightly splayed foot and cast with two animal-head handles, the waisted neck cast with a frieze comprising bovine masks, raised roundels and studs on a leiwen ground, the base cast with a band of 'dissolved' taotie and dragons, the bronze with a greyish-brown variagated gun-metal, malachite and ferrous-coloured patina, the centre of the interior cast with an inscription 12 in. (30.5 cm.) across handles
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