AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOUWestern Zhou Dynasty
With two X-rays.
Of broad ovoid form rising from a splayed foot, encircled by a band of kui dragons confronting an taotie mask, with a loop on each side supporting an arched handle with a bovine head on two ends, the main body decorated with large taotie masks on the front and back, the domed cover similarly decorated with taotie masks and kui dragons. 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high (2).Footnotes西周 青銅獸面紋提梁卣
Provenance:
An important Japanese private collection, acquired in Japan before 2000s
來源：
重要日本私人收藏，2000年代以前購於日本
銘文：亞□其
Compare a you, dated late Shang dynasty, with similar pattern on the body in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 1998, pp.540-547, no.92.
參考一件商晚期亞醜杞婦卣，其紋飾風格與本器類近，見陳芳妹著，《故宮商代青銅禮器圖錄》，台北，1998，頁540至547，編號92。
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOUWestern Zhou Dynasty
With two X-rays.
Of broad ovoid form rising from a splayed foot, encircled by a band of kui dragons confronting an taotie mask, with a loop on each side supporting an arched handle with a bovine head on two ends, the main body decorated with large taotie masks on the front and back, the domed cover similarly decorated with taotie masks and kui dragons. 18.5cm (7 1/4in) high (2).Footnotes西周 青銅獸面紋提梁卣
Provenance:
An important Japanese private collection, acquired in Japan before 2000s
來源：
重要日本私人收藏，2000年代以前購於日本
銘文：亞□其
Compare a you, dated late Shang dynasty, with similar pattern on the body in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection, Taipei, 1998, pp.540-547, no.92.
參考一件商晚期亞醜杞婦卣，其紋飾風格與本器類近，見陳芳妹著，《故宮商代青銅禮器圖錄》，台北，1998，頁540至547，編號92。
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