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A BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL AND COVER, YOU LATE SHANG-EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, 11TH CENTURY The pear-shaped body is raised on a splayed foot cast with two bow-string bands, and is decorated on each side with a large taotie mask below a band of kui dragons centered by an animal mask cast in high relief, and interrupted by a loop at each end attached to the rings at the end of the rope-twist handle. The sides and the top of the cover are decorated with bands of confronting kui dragons beneath a segmented finial. Both the interior of the vessel and the cover are cast with a four-character inscription, xiang ning fu xin. The surface has a mottled brownish-red patina and some malachite and cuprite encrustation. 7 ? in. (19.4 cm.) high