A Bronze Tripod Ritual Food Vessel, Liding, Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th Century BC The sides of the vessel horizontally grooved below a band of dissolved taotie centered on a simplified mask on two sides, the ring foot cast with a band of hooked diagonals...

A Bronze Tripod Ritual Food Vessel, Liding, Shang Dynasty, 12th-11th Century BC The tri-lobed body cast in low relief with three taotie masks with large rounded eyes positioned above each of the three slightly tapering columnar legs and flanked by descending...