An archaic bronze ritual vessel, jueShang Dynasty
The deep u-shaped body with a band of taotie masks on a leiwen ground, with two pictograms under the side loop handle issuing from a bovine head, below a peaked rim divided from the trough-shaped spout by twin carrying posts with whorl-decorated caps, all on three blade shaped feet, wood stand.
20.5cm (8 1/8in) high (2).注脚Provenance Sotheby's, Fine Chinese Art, London, 8 December 1992, lot 3.