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EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
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A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, GUI
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
The swelling body flat-cast below the everted rim with a band of pairs of dragons with clawed feet and scrolled tails reserved on a leiwen ground confronted on a small animal mask on two sides and on the loop handles surmounted by a dragon head, with a band of similar confronted dragons forming four taotie masks on the tall, flared foot, two of the masks centered by a narrow flange, with somewhat silvery patina and malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation
12 in. (30.5 cm.) across handles
EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY BC
The swelling body flat-cast below the everted rim with a band of pairs of dragons with clawed feet and scrolled tails reserved on a leiwen ground confronted on a small animal mask on two sides and on the loop handles surmounted by a dragon head, with a band of similar confronted dragons forming four taotie masks on the tall, flared foot, two of the masks centered by a narrow flange, with somewhat silvery patina and malachite, azurite and ferrous encrustation
12 in. (30.5 cm.) across handles