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The Sept. 14 auction of Chinese ceramics and works of art is led by a pair of archaic bronze ritual food vessels from the Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, decorated with taotie stylized mask figures and abstract patterns.
The New Yorker NewYorker.com 2011
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January 28, 2009