MIDDLE SPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD, EARLY 6TH CENTURY BC

A similar cup is illustrated by J. So, Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 1985, pp. 295-6, no. 54, where another, fig. 54.1, is also illustrated. In these latter examples there is only a single dragon in the blades, but the upper band is very similar to that on the present example.