THE SHI GU A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The trumpet-form neck is cast with four leiwen -filled blades rising from a band of S-shaped serpents. The middle section and spreading foot are cast in high relief with the disconnected parts of a taotie mask reserved on a fine leiwen ground and divided and separated by notched flanges, as are those on the foot, which are set below a band of kui dragons. A single clan mark is cast inside the foot. The bronze has a mottled milky-green patina. 12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) high Provenance Dr. Nathanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, acquired in the 1930s-1940s. Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1975.
THE SHI GU A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL LATE SHANG DYNASTY, ANYANG, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC The trumpet-form neck is cast with four leiwen -filled blades rising from a band of S-shaped serpents. The middle section and spreading foot are cast in high relief with the disconnected parts of a taotie mask reserved on a fine leiwen ground and divided and separated by notched flanges, as are those on the foot, which are set below a band of kui dragons. A single clan mark is cast inside the foot. The bronze has a mottled milky-green patina. 12 ¼ in. (31 cm.) high Provenance Dr. Nathanael Wessén Collection, Stockholm, acquired in the 1930s-1940s. Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1975.
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