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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (GU)
LATE SHANG DYNASTY
of slender waisted form with a trumpet neck, crisply cast around the central bulb with a pair of taotie masks, each detailed with bulging eyes and centered by a vertical flange, the splayed foot raised on a low footring, decorated with a further pair of taotie masks, all against a ground of intricate leiwen, the surface with areas of malachite encrustation, the interior of the base cast with two inscriptions reading zuoceren and niao
Height 9 7/8 in., 25 cm