Gu wine beaker with animal-mask pattern, late Shang dynasty, c. 13th-12th century BCE

Gu wine beaker with animal mask pattern, late Shang dynamics, c. 13th-12th center BCE

• Image Number:K1A000011N000000000PAB
• Dynasty:Shang dynamics
• Category:Bronzes
• Function:Wine vessel, gift vessel
• Material:Mineral/metal/bronze
• Description:
  Belly decorated with animal face, The feet are decorated with Kui patterns. The expression of the patterns belongs to the third style of Luo Yue. Only the belly has a slightly drum ridge as the animal nose. Dense single-layer thin line shallow relief, no main pattern or ground pattern. Its shape characteristics, expression techniques and motifs of its patterns are close to the M17 Gu in Xiaotun in the middle of Yin Ruins