• Dimension: Height: 7 3/4 in (19.7 cm) Width: 6 1/2 in (16.5 cm)
• Estimate From: $35000
• Estimate To: $50000

The upright sides curving into three mammiform lobes supported on slender columnar legs, each lobe centered with a taotie on a dense leiwen ground with raised eye-bosses and barbed mouths, all below a band of alternating cicada motifs and raised 'fire-whorl' medallions, the interior cast with one pictogram, all below a warm yellowish-green patina with some malachite encrustation. Shang Dynasty period.

Provenance: 1. Collection of Nai Chi-Chang 2. Oriental Fine Arts Inc. 3.Parke-Bernet, New York, December 1st, 1949, Lot 112 4. Nagatani, Inc. Chicago 5. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Armitage, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1950 6. Sotheby's New York, March 2001, Lot 2 7. Private Collection, Virginia

來源：1. 張乃驥舊藏 2. Oriental Fine Arts Inc. 1944 3. 紐約Parke-Bernet拍賣, 1949年12月1日, Lot 112 4.芝加哥Nagatani Inc. 5. Norman C. Armitage 伉儷收藏, 南卡羅萊納, 1950. 6.蘇富比紐約, 2001年3月, Lot 2. 7. 維吉尼亞州私人藏家提供