A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period the compressed pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading foot, crisply cast on a leiwen ground with two undulating wave bands enclosing detached C-scrolls and O-shapes around the lower bulging body, below a smaller register of stylized dragons and another wave band at the neck, interrupted by a pair of projecting loop handles issuing from reticulated bovine masks, all above three rows of overlapping pendant lappets around the pierced foot, the flattened cover cast with a zoomorphic band around the rim, surmounted by eight everted reticulated lappets encircling a large central medallion of entwining serpents enclosed by a sawtooth border, the surface with a smooth gray patina with light malachite encrustation (2) 24 1/8 in., 61.4 cm
A massive archaic bronze ritual wine vessel and cover (hu) Spring and Autumn period the compressed pear-shaped body supported on a tall spreading foot, crisply cast on a leiwen ground with two undulating wave bands enclosing detached C-scrolls and O-shapes around the lower bulging body, below a smaller register of stylized dragons and another wave band at the neck, interrupted by a pair of projecting loop handles issuing from reticulated bovine masks, all above three rows of overlapping pendant lappets around the pierced foot, the flattened cover cast with a zoomorphic band around the rim, surmounted by eight everted reticulated lappets encircling a large central medallion of entwining serpents enclosed by a sawtooth border, the surface with a smooth gray patina with light malachite encrustation (2) 24 1/8 in., 61.4 cm
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.jpg "Quelle: Christie's")
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