AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, gui , the compressed globular body with two bovine mask-head handles standing on a high flanged base with a waisted neck, the exterior decorated with five registers of raised conical studs set on an incised lozenge ground, the neck with a frieze of shallow-relief chilong dragons flanking taotie masks, below a band of stiff leaves, the base with a similar frieze divided by vertical flanges, the bronze with a dark gun-metal patina and areas of malachite encrustation, Western Zhou Dynasty 27cm. wide
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL, gui , the compressed globular body with two bovine mask-head handles standing on a high flanged base with a waisted neck, the exterior decorated with five registers of raised conical studs set on an incised lozenge ground, the neck with a frieze of shallow-relief chilong dragons flanking taotie masks, below a band of stiff leaves, the base with a similar frieze divided by vertical flanges, the bronze with a dark gun-metal patina and areas of malachite encrustation, Western Zhou Dynasty 27cm. wide
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