AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, gu , of tall slender shape with broadly flaring mouth and splayed base, the mid-section crisply cast in shallow relief on a leiwen ground with dissolved taotie masks with raised eyes and C-shaped horns divided by four vertical flanges, above a plain double-ribbed band pierced with two cruciform apertures, the base similarly decorated with taotie and leiwen below a band of small dragons, the neck with a band of snakes below upright cicada blades incised with leiwen rising to the rim, the bronze with a pale green and gun-metal patina with areas of malachite encrustation, Shang Dynasty 28cm. high
AN ARCHAIC BRONZE WINE VESSEL, gu , of tall slender shape with broadly flaring mouth and splayed base, the mid-section crisply cast in shallow relief on a leiwen ground with dissolved taotie masks with raised eyes and C-shaped horns divided by four vertical flanges, above a plain double-ribbed band pierced with two cruciform apertures, the base similarly decorated with taotie and leiwen below a band of small dragons, the neck with a band of snakes below upright cicada blades incised with leiwen rising to the rim, the bronze with a pale green and gun-metal patina with areas of malachite encrustation, Shang Dynasty 28cm. high
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