A Bronze Zun (Wine Vessel)
Ancient Chinese Bronze
Bronze You
Yue Fu You |
Late Shang Dynasty The body, rising to a wide trumpet neck, cast with a raised central bulb within vertical twin-line borders to depict two high relief taotie masks on a crisp squared spiral ground flanked by pairs of dragon and phoenix at its corners, the interior of foot rim with a two-graph inscription, FU DING, the patina of reddish-brown tone with some blue-green encrustation. |
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