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Maker: Unknown
Gui food vessel, bronze. Inscribed. The bowl has a high foot rim, with two loop handles in the form of dragons' heads, with another animal below, possibly a goat. The body is divided into four quarters, each with a t'ao t'ieh mask formed from butting dragon heads. A frieze of hook snouted dragons above, and of grovelling dragons below. With a cicada motif at the top rim
History note: Unknown before testator
Bequeathed by E. Maurice B. Ingram
Height: 13.3 cm
Width: 26.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1941) by Ingram, Edward Maurice Berkeley
Shang-Yin Dynasty
-1200
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-1100
Accession number: O.3-1941
Primary reference Number: 138338
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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