The archaic bronze cast ritual censer stands on three beast legs extending from beast masks, supporting globular body incised with scrolling mythical snake pattern bands, two lifting handles stem from the neck to above the lid, the lid bears three ring knobs and a center loop ring finial, archaic inscription beneath the lid.|||Height: 10 1/4 in (26.0 cm) Diameter: 12 1/2 in (31.8 cm)|楚國 蟠虺紋楚式鼎 |此鼎器身呈圓型，鼎子口微斂，可以承蓋，蓋上配有三鈕，口外兩側附豎長方形曲耳，鼓腹而深，與蓋合成渾圓體，圜底下具三條足，腹上部飾蟠虺紋，中部間隔綯索紋。整器鑄造精細，紋飾清晰美觀，高超的工藝充分展現了青銅器鑄造的水準，是十分罕見的鼎之佳品。