AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE, LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY | 商末 / 西周初 青銅饕餮紋爵

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AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL, JUE

LATE SHANG/EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY

商末 / 西周初 青銅饕餮紋爵

the deep U-shaped body raised on three splayed blade feet, cast with a band of taotie masks reserved on a dense leiwen ground, one side set with a loop handle, beneath a long, channelled spout opposite a raised point forming the rim, surmounted by a pair of rectangular posts rising to mushroom-cap finials two pictograms below the handle, wood stand

Height 19 cm, 7½ in.