An important and massive inscribed archaic bronze food vessel, (li) Middle Western Zhou dynasty, late 10th or 9th century BC the robustly cast body supported on three hollow and stocky cabriole legs rising to three round lobes, each cast with a low-relief taotie animal mask centered on a low flange and reserved against a loose leiwen ground, all below a raised filet collaring the waisted neck and a pair of upright U-shaped handles set on the rim, the patina of dark green tone covered with malachite encrustation, the interior wall inscribed with a long eight-line, sixty-five character inscription 13 1/4 by 11 3/4 in., 35 by 29.8 cm
An important and massive inscribed archaic bronze food vessel, (li) Middle Western Zhou dynasty, late 10th or 9th century BC the robustly cast body supported on three hollow and stocky cabriole legs rising to three round lobes, each cast with a low-relief taotie animal mask centered on a low flange and reserved against a loose leiwen ground, all below a raised filet collaring the waisted neck and a pair of upright U-shaped handles set on the rim, the patina of dark green tone covered with malachite encrustation, the interior wall inscribed with a long eight-line, sixty-five character inscription 13 1/4 by 11 3/4 in., 35 by 29.8 cm
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