LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 12TH-11TH CENTURY BC

A bronze liding with a similar frieze of cicadas below the rim and related taotie masks cast in relief on the sides is illustrated by R.W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, Washington DC, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1987, pp. 484-5, where it is dated 12th-11th century BC. See, also, the liding with similar taotie masks cast in relief, but with a freize of stylized dragons in profile below the rim, illustrated in Shang Ritual Bronzes in the National Palace Museum Collection, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, pp. 216-9, no. 24.