Gui (ritual food vessel), 11th-10th century BCE, 6 1/4 × 12 5/16 × 724 in. ( × × cm), Bronze, China, 11th-10 century BCE, This vessel form, known as gui, was used to hold food in ritual ceremonies during the Bronze Age. The band under the lip is a pair of bifurcated dragons, whose rounded, undulant double body is patterned with intaglio tulip-shaped designs. In the frieze encircling the foot two pairs of S-shaped dragons, on each side of the body, are arranged around relief ridges coaxial with the horned dragon head in the upper border.

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