An Unusual Bronze Food Vessel and Cover, Dui Eastern Zhou Dynasty The bulbous vessel and cover cast as mirror images of each other so that the cover when inverted can be used as a bowl, both flat-cast with two different bands of a repeating pattern of intertwined serpents on a granular ground, a slightly recessed band at the rims also decorated, as are the faceted loop handles, the spreading ring surmounting the cover centered by a flowerhead encircled by three further serpents with split and entwined bodies, light encrustation inside and out 8in. (20.3cm.) high
An Unusual Bronze Food Vessel and Cover, Dui Eastern Zhou Dynasty The bulbous vessel and cover cast as mirror images of each other so that the cover when inverted can be used as a bowl, both flat-cast with two different bands of a repeating pattern of intertwined serpents on a granular ground, a slightly recessed band at the rims also decorated, as are the faceted loop handles, the spreading ring surmounting the cover centered by a flowerhead encircled by three further serpents with split and entwined bodies, light encrustation inside and out 8in. (20.3cm.) high
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