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Bronze ritual food vessel, 'gui'. This vessel is known as the 'Kang Hou gui', after the brother of the Zhou King Wu, known as the Duke of Kang or Kang Hou, who is named in the long inscription inside the vessel. It has a high foot-ring and large handles of tusked animal heads with upright horns, swallowing birds whose beaks just emerge from their jaws; below the handles are decorated with bird's wings, bodies and tails.
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