Lot #41

An Archaic Bronze Ritual Wine Vessel

Gu Western Zhou

Tall slender waisted form, the trumpet neck flaring to a wide mouth, finely cast with four tapering blades extending to the rim, each containing a disjointed taotie mask above a narrow band of confronted serpent motifs, the central section cast with two horned taotie masks bisected by notched flanges all reserved in relief on a leiwen ground, the gently spreading foot similarly decorated below a narrow band of confronted horned mythical beasts below a raised bow string border with two cruciform apertures.

Age discolored, scratches, tarnished.

Height: 27 cm