A Chinese bronze tripod ritual tripod vessel, jue

Reference: ART1003868

Raised on three blade-form supports, the sides cast with a band of two taotie masks reserved on a leiwen ground and separated by narrow notched flanges, one mask centered on a third flange, the other centered on the C-scroll handle issuing from a bovine mask, with a pair of capped posts rising from the rim, with mottled green patina