imitating a Shang original, the body cast with three panels with taotie masks and kui dragons against a leiwen ground, separated by simulated strapwork, the vessel raised on three slightly tapered cylindrical feet and the flattened mouth rim surmounted by two arched handles, with dark brown and green patination throughout, residue and encrustation to interior, 13?in. (34.3cm.) high, the rim 9?in. (23.5cm.) diameter.