Late Shang Dynasty The deep rounded boy rising from a tall spreading foot to an everted rim, the neck decorated with a frieze of birds on a leiwen ground and divided at the middle by two raised taotie masks, the foot cast with two widely-spread taotie masks in low relief, the bronze patinated to a green and reddish colour, box. 17.2cm (6 3/4in) high (2).Footnotes商晚期 青銅鳳鳥饕餮紋簋 Provenance: An American private collection, Texas Lotus Gallery, Austin, Texas, 25 March 2011 來源: 美國德克薩斯州私人舊藏 Lotus Gallery，美國德克薩斯州奧斯汀，2011年3月25日 Compare with a closely related bronze gui, but with dragons on the frieze, also late Shang dynasty, in the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, see Zhongguo qingtongqi quanji (The Completed Collection of Chinese Archaic Bronzes), Beijing, 1997, vol.2, pl.86. 敞口折沿，身向下緩收，圈足外撇，頸部飾一周鳳鳥紋帶飾，鳳鳥每面三隻相對望，前後正中一凸起之立體饕餮紋隔開，身腹素面，圈足前後飾饕餮紋一面，以雷紋為地，正中出矮戟，紅綠鏽。 此簋可參考中國社會科學院考古研究所藏一件出土於殷墟的商代晚期寢出簋，見《中國青銅器全集》，北京，1997年，卷2，圖版86。