AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The pear-shaped body cast with two small taotie masks on either side of the body, reserved on a band of diagonally arranged leiwen set between two narrow bands of bosses and interrupted by two loops attached to the rope-twist handle, the cover similarly decorated beneath an acorn-shaped finial, both the interior of the vessel and the cover cast with a three-character inscription 7½ in. (19 cm.) high
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The pear-shaped body cast with two small taotie masks on either side of the body, reserved on a band of diagonally arranged leiwen set between two narrow bands of bosses and interrupted by two loops attached to the rope-twist handle, the cover similarly decorated beneath an acorn-shaped finial, both the interior of the vessel and the cover cast with a three-character inscription 7½ in. (19 cm.) high
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