Sacral bronze wine jar (lei)

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Shanghai Museum
Photographer: Arthur Llewellyn Basham

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This jar was used as a wine storage vessel. Nipples and square spirals pattern with four rams' heads jutting out on upper corners form the decorative motifs. -- Shang dynasty, h: 38.8 cm.

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China, metalwork, bronze, photograph

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