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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF CHARLES AND MARGOT NESBITT, OKLAHOMA CITY

A BRONZE RITUAL FOOD VESSEL, YU
WESTERN ZHOU DYNASTY OR LATER
The deep bowl has an everted rim and is cast around the sides with a wide band of diamond and boss patterns below a band of three pairs of dragons confronted on animal masks. Pairs of similar dragons encircle the tall, flared foot. There is green encrustation allover.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam.
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A similarly decorated yu, but with pointed bosses, is illustrated by Robert W. Bagley in Shang Dynasty Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1987, pp. 512-13, no. 101, where the author describes the dragons' bodies as flat and ribbon-like.

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