AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN) EARLY WESTERN ZHOU, 11TH CENTURY BC the pear-shaped body with gently tapering sides surmounted by a wide flared mouth, supported on a high splayed foot angled to a straight foot ring, crisply cast with a narrow frieze above a single raised filet of two pairs of confronted birds with hooked beaks and long wing and tail plumes, on a ground of linear scrolls and centered on two raised bovine masks, the bronze an attractive pale green with some azurite and malachite encrustation Height 7 3/8 in., 18.7 cm
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN) EARLY WESTERN ZHOU, 11TH CENTURY BC the pear-shaped body with gently tapering sides surmounted by a wide flared mouth, supported on a high splayed foot angled to a straight foot ring, crisply cast with a narrow frieze above a single raised filet of two pairs of confronted birds with hooked beaks and long wing and tail plumes, on a ground of linear scrolls and centered on two raised bovine masks, the bronze an attractive pale green with some azurite and malachite encrustation Height 7 3/8 in., 18.7 cm
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