Han Dynasty |The vessel of globular shape rising from a cylindrical foot to a waisted neck and flaring mouth, unadorned save for a pair of applied taotie masks supporting loose-ring handles at the shoulder and three raised bands around the body, shoulder and mouth rim, the circular domed cover with four small snake-shaped knobs, the surface with patches of green encrustation. 48cm (19in) high (2).|漢 青銅饕餮紋蓋壺Provenance: a European private collection來源： 歐洲私人收藏Compare with a similarly shaped bronze vessel and cover, hu, Western Han dynasty, illustrated in The Great Bronze Age of China, New York, 1980, p.299, fig.96.