A RARE AND FINELY CAST LARGE RITUAL BRONZE WINE VESSEL, POU
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
A RARE AND FINELY CAST LARGE RITUAL BRONZE WINE VESSEL, POU SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC Raised on a tall, slightly splayed foot crisply cast with addorsed dragons centered around short flanges and masks cast in low relief, the lower register of the body cast with three large taotie masks with bulging eyes beneath a plain, narrow band and a wider band of dragons confronted around three bovine masks cast in high relief on the wide shoulder, each band reserved on a leiwen ground and all beneath two bow-string bands below the everted rim, the smooth surface with some milky green malachite encrustation 11 in. (27.9 cm.) high
A RARE AND FINELY CAST LARGE RITUAL BRONZE WINE VESSEL, POU
SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC
A RARE AND FINELY CAST LARGE RITUAL BRONZE WINE VESSEL, POU SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC Raised on a tall, slightly splayed foot crisply cast with addorsed dragons centered around short flanges and masks cast in low relief, the lower register of the body cast with three large taotie masks with bulging eyes beneath a plain, narrow band and a wider band of dragons confronted around three bovine masks cast in high relief on the wide shoulder, each band reserved on a leiwen ground and all beneath two bow-string bands below the everted rim, the smooth surface with some milky green malachite encrustation 11 in. (27.9 cm.) high
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