A Chinese Bronze Ritual Food Vessel, Gui, in Western Zhou style, the mask and loop handles with ‘tail feather’ tabs, cast in high relief with pairs of coiled…

A Chinese Bronze Ritual Food Vessel, Gui, in Western Zhou style, the mask and loop handles with ‘tail feather’ tabs, cast in high relief with pairs of coiled fanged dragons and notched flanges, on a leiwen ground, the interior with four archaic characters 15cm high Oxford Authentication Thermoluminescence Certificate C122c53 on a sample of casting core places the last firing as 500-800 years ago, with the proviso that because of a house fire ‘a greater age is conceivable’. For a simila

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Asian art

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Leyburn

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H 15 cm