AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, YOU LATE SHANG DYNASTY-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The vessel is finely cast with a broad pear-shaped body standing on a splayed foot with a loose over-head arched handle. It is boldly decorated in relief with raised flanges to the sides dividing large taotie masks on the body below a band of confronted kui dragons to the shoulder. The domed cover is decorated with raised flanges separating two taotie masks above a band of kui dragons, and is surmounted by a bud finial. The inside of the cover and the interior base of the vessel are cast with an inscription in intaglio reading Ya Tan Fu Yi , (dedicated to Father Yi of the Ya Tan clan). 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high overall Provenance Acquired by the vendor's grandparents in the Middle East in the 1960s, and thence by descent within the family.
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, YOU LATE SHANG DYNASTY-WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The vessel is finely cast with a broad pear-shaped body standing on a splayed foot with a loose over-head arched handle. It is boldly decorated in relief with raised flanges to the sides dividing large taotie masks on the body below a band of confronted kui dragons to the shoulder. The domed cover is decorated with raised flanges separating two taotie masks above a band of kui dragons, and is surmounted by a bud finial. The inside of the cover and the interior base of the vessel are cast with an inscription in intaglio reading Ya Tan Fu Yi , (dedicated to Father Yi of the Ya Tan clan). 9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) high overall Provenance Acquired by the vendor's grandparents in the Middle East in the 1960s, and thence by descent within the family.
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