ZUNOf archaic bronze form and with a compressed globular mid-section, a spreading base and a flaring neck terminating in an upright mouth-rim, inlaid in fine gilt-metal wires and enamelled with four equidistant olive-yellow taotie masks around the centre, above four smaller green masks around the base, and below upright lappets containing pairs of dissolved kueilong around the neck, each register divided by bands of key-pattern in red on a blue ground, all reserved on a turquoise ground enriched with further key-pattern, the interior of the mouth rim with a wide border of stylised lotus-scroll, a similar example see Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd March ,lot 3517 (realised price 573,382 USD) 31.5CM*4.5CM*17CM