Ming/Qing dynastyCast with three wide relief bands of archaistic dragons and birds on a whorl and leiwen ground above a thin taotie band to the short spreading foot, the neck with two animal-headed loop handles, an indecipherable square seal to the base. 10 3/4in (27.3cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:明/清 仿古雙耳銅壺For the archaic pre-cursor from the Eastern Zhou period (early 5th century BCE), see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Bronzes, Art and Ritual, British Museum, London, 1987, pp. 88-89, no. 34. See also Ma Chengyuan, Ancient Chinese Bronzes, Oxford, 1986, pp. 85-86, pl. 60. for a hu from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BCE); and also Pope, Gettens, Cahill and Barnard, The Freer Chinese Bronzes, Vol. I, Washington DC., 1967, pp. 496-497, pl. 91 for another.