The upright sides curving into three mammiform lobes supported on slender columnar legs, each lobe centered with a taotie on a dense leiwen ground with raised eye-bosses and barbed mouths, all below a band of alternating cicada motifs and raised 'fire-whorl' medallions, the interior cast with one pictogram, all below a warm yellowish-green patina with some malachite encrustation. Shang Dynasty period. Provenance: Collection of Nai Chi-Chang Oriental Fine Arts Inc. Parke-Bernet, New York, December 1st, 1949, Lot 112 Nagatani, Inc. Chicago Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Norman C. Armitage, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1950 Sotheby's New York, March 2001 Lot 2 Private Collection, Virginia 來源: 張乃驥舊藏 東方藝術品公司 Parke-Bernet拍賣行, 紐約, 1949年12月1日 拍品號112 芝加哥Nagatani Inc. Norman C. Armitage伉儷收藏, 南卡羅萊納, 1950 蘇富比紐約 2001年3月 拍品號2 維吉尼亞州私人收藏