Chinese bronze vase cast and decorated with a band of taotie monster faces in cloisonné enamel on the neck and belly. The design is a late 19th- or early 20th-century copy of an ancient bronze ritual vessel, made to satisfy the antique collecting craze of the time.
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Date supported
2006
Medium and material
Bronze & cloissoné enamel
Gifted by
Mollie Lees
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