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'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Elephant and 'Taotie' Decor and with Ram-Head Bail Handle

Department of Asian Art [Yamanaka & Co. New York June 29 1936] sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop New York (1936-1943) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1943. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

late 11th-early 10th century BCE 11th-10th century BCE Zhou dynasty Western Zhou period c. 1050-771 BCE -1025 -975

Chinese

Title: 'You' Covered Ritual Wine Vessel with Elephant and 'Taotie' Decor and with Ram-Head Bail Handle

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