AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU early western zhou dynasty The squat and flattened pear-shaped body cast with a solid loop handle decorated with a cicada motif and elaborate horned mask terminals covering the plain loops at the shoulders dividing a band of characteristic open-mouthed serpentine dragons looking backwards on a leiwen ground embellished with a taotie mask on each side above the spreading foot with a similar stylised zoomorphic band, the waisted domed cover with a band of serpentine dragons below a knop finial, the interior of the vessel and cover with the same eight-character inscription, the grey-green patina with areas of azurite and malachite encrustation 11¾in. (30cm.) high, wood stand
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU early western zhou dynasty The squat and flattened pear-shaped body cast with a solid loop handle decorated with a cicada motif and elaborate horned mask terminals covering the plain loops at the shoulders dividing a band of characteristic open-mouthed serpentine dragons looking backwards on a leiwen ground embellished with a taotie mask on each side above the spreading foot with a similar stylised zoomorphic band, the waisted domed cover with a band of serpentine dragons below a knop finial, the interior of the vessel and cover with the same eight-character inscription, the grey-green patina with areas of azurite and malachite encrustation 11¾in. (30cm.) high, wood stand
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