Anonymous, vase you (usual name), between -1300 and -1050. Bronze, cast iron. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris. Dragons confronted, type KUI, decorate each registers for this powerful piece intended to contain fermented drinks. Those of the paunch, with curved jaws, with a tail rolled out outside and the legs provided with claws, draw a mask of taotie with large particularly impressive globular eyes. Cernuschi. Another copy, kept in the Arthur M. Sackler collection, is only distinguished by some details, including the reasons for the fallout from the cover. In other v
Anonymous, vase you (usual name), between -1300 and -1050. Bronze, cast iron. Cernuschi Museum, Asia Museum of Asia in the city of Paris. Dragons confronted, type KUI, decorate each registers for this powerful piece intended to contain fermented drinks. Those of the paunch, with curved jaws, with a tail rolled out outside and the legs provided with claws, draw a mask of taotie with large particularly impressive globular eyes. Cernuschi. Another copy, kept in the Arthur M. Sackler collection, is only distinguished by some details, including the reasons for the fallout from the cover. In other very close vases, cited by R. Bagley and reputed to come from the provinces of the Anhui or Zhejiang, had been garnished with small objects in jade when they are buried. It is likely, however, that this type of you, chanted by brightly protruding edges, with a pansu profile, with an oval section and provided with a transverse handle, disappeared on the container of the Cernuschi museum, was manufactured in North China and exported in the south. It seems to appear a century after the choice of Anyang's site as capital.
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