Ritual wine vessel is blessed at $8.4m
US: HIGHLIGHT of Asia week in New York was this 2ft 1in (63cm) high bronze ritual wine vessel of the late Shang/early Western Zhou period offered at Christie’s on March 20, where it became the most expensive oriental work of art ever sold at auction.
Heavily cast square section lei (wine containers with three ‘ears’) are among the rarest of Chinese …