A BRONZE 'EIGHT-TRIGRAMS' VASE YUAN DYNASTY

with a compressed globular body rising to a tall straight neck flanked by ruyi cloud-form handles and decorated with a wide leiwen diaper band above four upright cicada lappets, the body encircled by a band with the 'Eight Trigrams' arranged in a row against a diaper ground, all supported on a low foot

A similar example is illustrated in Michel Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, no. 86.