AN ARCHAIC BRONZE TRIPOD FOOD VESSEL, LI LATE SHANG DYNASTY

the body formed by three flanged lobes rising above short cylindrical legs, each lobe cast with a taotie animal mask in raised relief reserved on a leiwen ground, all beneath an everted rim set with a pair of loop handles, the interior rim with a single character pictogram, the metal of dark grey tone with malachite encrustation

Formerly in the Schoenlicht Collection (by repute).