A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE FLARING VASE, ZUN

WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

细节

A FINE ARCHAIC BRONZE FLARING VASE, ZUN
western zhou dynasty
Heavily cast with wide flaring mouth, the central section cast in low relief with two horned taotie masks between raised double lines, standing on a splayed foot, cast with a pictogram at the interior, the bronze surface greyish-green heavily encrusted with malachite and cuprite
10¼ in. (26 cm.) high

拍品专文

Compare a similar example illustrated by R. Spelman, The Arts of China, C.W. Post Art Gallery, 1977, Catalogue no.21, p.28; and another excavated from a Western Zhou tomb at Baicaopo, Lingtai, Gansu and illustrated in Wenwu, 1972, p.7, no.12, pl.12.