AN UNUSUAL BRONZE POURING VESSEL, HE
MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH CENTURY BC
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE POURING VESSEL, HE MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH CENTURY BC The quadrilobed body raised on four slender tapering columnar legs, cast in low relief on the neck with two pairs of crested, long-tailed birds confronted on a simplified mask and reserved on a leiwen ground, with a similar band on the slightly domed cover below a crouching tiger finial, a ring at the back of the cover attached to the ring formed by the hands of a man with turned head standing atop the bovine mask which surmounts the loop handle, with mottled greenish-grey patina 8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE POURING VESSEL, HE
MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH CENTURY BC
AN UNUSUAL BRONZE POURING VESSEL, HE MIDDLE WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 9TH CENTURY BC The quadrilobed body raised on four slender tapering columnar legs, cast in low relief on the neck with two pairs of crested, long-tailed birds confronted on a simplified mask and reserved on a leiwen ground, with a similar band on the slightly domed cover below a crouching tiger finial, a ring at the back of the cover attached to the ring formed by the hands of a man with turned head standing atop the bovine mask which surmounts the loop handle, with mottled greenish-grey patina 8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
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