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Tripod vase
This vase features an unusual tripod shape rarely found among archaic bronzes. In addition to the common animal-mask pattern, it is decorated with entwined dragons around its neck—a new design of the fourteenth century. The vase illustrates the experimental spirit embedded in bronzes of the time.
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