A RARE MASSIVE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, DING WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY The bulbous body encircled by a leiwen band cast in high relief with three pairs of dragons confronted on a notched flange, each pair separated by a taotie mask positioned over one of the three massive, waisted legs cast on the upper section with a large mask with coiled ram's horns and divided by a prominent flange, a pair of bow-string bands below, with a pair of bail handles rising from the inwardly canted rim, the interior cast in intaglio with a single-character pictogram below the rim and with a deep, hollowed depression cast in the base above each leg, the soft grayish patina with some cuprite encrustation 22½in. (57.2cm.) high
A RARE MASSIVE BRONZE RITUAL TRIPOD VESSEL, DING WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY The bulbous body encircled by a leiwen band cast in high relief with three pairs of dragons confronted on a notched flange, each pair separated by a taotie mask positioned over one of the three massive, waisted legs cast on the upper section with a large mask with coiled ram's horns and divided by a prominent flange, a pair of bow-string bands below, with a pair of bail handles rising from the inwardly canted rim, the interior cast in intaglio with a single-character pictogram below the rim and with a deep, hollowed depression cast in the base above each leg, the soft grayish patina with some cuprite encrustation 22½in. (57.2cm.) high
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