AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL (HU) HAN DYNASTY

the compressed ovoid body cast with two series of horizontal concave bands, set on the shoulders with two simplified taotie masks suspending loose rings, raised on a flaring hexagonal foot, freely incised with two  pairs of confronting dragons, the smooth patina an iridescent grayish-green

Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., New York, 13th March 1975, lot 130.