Wine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese Size:M: 50 x 50cm 23rd July 1973

23rd July 1973

the royal canopy on the bridge

Landscape panorama showing the view from Greenwich: including at the right of the print the old Royal Observatory building (now known as Flamsteed House)

Hooker holds his jacket lapel with his left hand

Wine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese Size:M: 50 x 50cm 23rd July 1973Wine beaker (tsun), ancient Chinese, (1925). A taotie mask, with protuberant eyeballs, is arranged on either side of each of the three vertical ridges. Above each ridge is a head of the sacrificial victim, hsi. The two upper encircling bands are figured with the k'uei dragon. Spaces between the decorative elements are filled in with 'cloud and thunder' pattern. Pre Han style, showing supposedley autochthonous Chinese art. A print from Chinese Art,