A SMALL ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER (FANGLEI) LATE SHANG / WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY of rectangular section with wide shoulders tapering towards the splayed foot, the straight neck decorated with two bow-string bands, supporting a high-domed cover of conforming outline surmounted by a similarly shaped finial atop a square-sectioned post, the base of the cover and the shoulders encircled by a band of raised circular whorls, the sides interrupted by a pair of loop handles surmounted by bovine heads, with an additional handle on the front set just above the foot, the interior of the neck cast with three pictographs, the surface covered with a mottled milky green patina and patches of malachite and earth encrustation (2) Height 13 1/2 in., 34.2 cm
A SMALL ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER (FANGLEI) LATE SHANG / WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY of rectangular section with wide shoulders tapering towards the splayed foot, the straight neck decorated with two bow-string bands, supporting a high-domed cover of conforming outline surmounted by a similarly shaped finial atop a square-sectioned post, the base of the cover and the shoulders encircled by a band of raised circular whorls, the sides interrupted by a pair of loop handles surmounted by bovine heads, with an additional handle on the front set just above the foot, the interior of the neck cast with three pictographs, the surface covered with a mottled milky green patina and patches of malachite and earth encrustation (2) Height 13 1/2 in., 34.2 cm
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