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Description: | Cast bronze ritual vessel for warming and pouring wine. Deep ovoid body on three tall, splayed, sharply cast legs of triangular section. The main body of the vessel is decorated with a wide band of taotie masks on a leiwen ground. On one side of the vessel is a loop handle that springs from a horned bovine mask; under the handle is a two-character pictogram. Two canopied columns flank a long, trough-shaped pouring spout with a pointed, flaring rim opposite. The vessel is covered in a green-brown patina with patches of malachite encrustation. Description Source: OMDB | Subjects: | receptacle/vessel vessel | Source: | Vads | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=265... | Go to resource |
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