Lot Essay
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.