An archaic bronze ritual food vessel (Yu). With three taotie masks on a Leiwen ground.
A similar Yu excavated at Subutun, Qingzhou, Shanxi province, is illustrated in Lu Changling, Shandong wenwu jinghua, Beijing, 1996. Another from the Mount Trust collection is illustrated in William Watson, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, London, 1962, pl. 4b.
* Formerly on loan to the Neiraku museum, Nara Japan
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