The exterior of each tri-lobed vessel is cast below the rim with a narrow band of scrolls that taper in a diagonal from a central "eye," all between two rows of circles, cloth boxes.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 1991.

Note: These liding with their unusual decorative bands are similar to a liding of similar height (19.5 cm.) illustrated in Shang and Zhou Bronzes from Shaanxi Province, Beijing, 1979, p. 74, pl. 71. Similar bands can also be seen above and below a taotie band on the sides of a fangding illustrated by Bernhard Karlgren in "Marginalia on Some Bronze Albums," BMFEA, No. 32, Stockholm, 1960, PL. 44b.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 25 September 2020