SONG DYNASTY, OR POSSIBLY LATER
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A GOLD-SHEET-INLAID BRONZE TWO-HEADED RAM CENSER
song dynasty, or possibly later
Heavily cast on four sturdy cylindrical legs, the rounded body incised with a scale pattern reserved at the shoulders with a spiral motif and rising to two horned ram heads with square jaws revealing their teeth, bearing between them an oval cylinder, all surfaces adorned with copper-gilt inlay and covered with brown and green patination, minor losses to inlay
13½in. (34.2cm.) wide
song dynasty, or possibly later
Heavily cast on four sturdy cylindrical legs, the rounded body incised with a scale pattern reserved at the shoulders with a spiral motif and rising to two horned ram heads with square jaws revealing their teeth, bearing between them an oval cylinder, all surfaces adorned with copper-gilt inlay and covered with brown and green patination, minor losses to inlay
13½in. (34.2cm.) wide