A CHINESE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC RITUAL VESSEL

A CHINESE BRONZE ARCHAISTIC RITUAL VESSEL, FANG MING/QING DYNASTY The bulbous square-section body with a neck, supported on a flared foot and with a pair of taotie mask handles, a circular paper label for Entwistle to the base, 28.5cm, 1.9kg. Cf. Artifacts in the Nanyue King's Tomb of Western Han Dynasty, National Museum of History, p.105, no.B60 for a Han dynasty prototype of this vessel.