A RARE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
A RARE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
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A RARE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A RARE ARCHAISTIC BRONZE PEAR-SHAPED VASE, HU
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The vase is decorated with horizontal bands of various decorative patterns, including a band of cresting waves on the neck, which is flanked by tubular handles.
9 ¾ in. (24.7 cm.) high
Provenance
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910.

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A bronze vase of similar form and cast with horizontal bands of various patterns, including waves on the neck, but of slightly smaller size (23.2 cm.), was recovered from a shipwreck off the Sinan coast of Korea dated to shortly after 1323, and is illustrated in Discoveries from the Sinan Shipwreck, National Museum of Korea, 2016, p. 30, no. 17. Another bronze vase of similar form with a similar wave band on the neck and similar bands of scrolling patterns on the shoulder and foot, but with cloud-form handles and of smaller size (18.4 cm.), is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 1987.112.

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