, EARLY WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY (1046-771 BC), of cylindrical form rising from a splayed foot ending in a trumpet neck, boldly cast around the middle and lower register with four taotie masks, each exhibiting rectangular slit pupils, stylised C-shaped horns and hooked jaws, the upper register at the flared neck further decorated with four upright blades filled with taotie masks above a band decorated with two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on dense archaistic leiwen ground and divided by horizontal bow-string borders and four evenly-spaced vertical flanges at the cardinal directions on all three registers. 31cm high