of cylindrical form, boldly cast around the waist with two taotie masks with rounded eyes and ‘C’-shaped horns, the splayed foot decorated with further taotie masks with rectangular slit pupils, upright horns and hooked jaws, below two bow-string bands interrupted by two cruciform apertures, the flaring neck with four upright blades filled with upward-looking taotie masks above a band of two pairs of kui dragons, all reserved on a dense leiwen ground, the three registers divided by protruding notched vertical flangesOrigin: ChinaPeriod: Zhou Style