Ming/Qing dynastyUnder a dark coppery patination and superbly cast in the Eastern Zhou style with the bulbous body divided into quarters by relief strapwork bands and centered by bosses on a whorl and leiwen ground, vertical flanges to the narrow sides and small tapir-like animal-mask loop handles at the neck. 7 ¼in (18.4cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:明/清 銅方壺For another seventeenth century version of this Eastern Zhou inspired vessel, see Christian Deydier, Chinese Bronzes, Friborg, Switzerland, 1980, p.188, no. 147. For the early Zhou antecedent, a you, see ibid., pp. 52-53, no. 33.