AN ARCHAIC BRONZE RITUAL WINE VESSEL (ZUN) LATE SHANG DYNASTY, 13TH - 11TH CENTURY BC

with an expansive trumpet mouth and broad splayed hollow foot with a double raised filet, the sides flat cast with a band of three taotie  with protuberant eyes below a narrow band of confronting kui dragons, the shoulder  with a similarly decorated frieze interrupted  with three bovine masks, below another pair of raised filets encircling the neck, wood stand, wood box (3)

Japanese collects ion formed before World War II.

In good condition.
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A similar zun in the Hunan Provincial Museum is illustrated in Zhonguuo qingtongqi quanji, vol. 4, Beijing, 1998. pls. 117 and 118; another was sold in our London rooms 13th November, 2002,  lot 34; and other related vessels of this period are published in Robert W. Bagley, Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler collects ions, Washington, D.C., 1987, pls. 44 and 45 and p. 281, fig. 45.1.