Raised on three splayed blade-shaped legs, cast to each side with a broad register containing two pairs of taotie masks with raised eyes on a leiwen ground of asymmetrical scrolls, bisected by a low flange to one side, the other with a loop handle issuing from an animal mask containing a pictogram beneath, all below upright triangle lappets, flanked by two prominent post caps bearing whorl designs. Shang Dynasty period. 商 青銅饕餮紋爵杯 帶銘文