An Archaic Bronze Tripod Wine Vessel, HeSPRING AND AUTUMN PERIOD/WARRING STATES春秋/戰國 青銅獸紋盉the compressed globular body cast nestled within three club legs terminating in curved feet, the shoulder with a pair of beaded bands about the shoulder reserving a zoomorphic scroll against a leiwen ground interrupted with a serpentine spout, and surmounted by a large dragon head handle arching over the lion topped finial to the disc-like cover. The whole showing grey patina and faint azure encrustation.Height 11 x width 10 1/2 in., 28 x 26.7 cm. Property from a Private Northeastern CollectionAcquired in Hong Kong, 1998.