元 銅錦紋如意雲耳六方瓶

of pear shape with hexagonal section, each side decorated with five panels enclosing scrolling foliage, star diaper, diamond diaper, lion-head mask against a leiwen ground and pendant cidada blades, the neck flanked by a pair of ruyi cloud-form handles, all supported on scroll-decorated splayed foot

A similar example from the collection of Ulrich Hausmann was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2014, lot 3392. Another closely related bronze vase in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum is illustrated in Rose Kerr, 'The Evolution of Bronze Style in the Jin, Yuan and Early Ming Dynasties', Oriental Art, vol. XXVIII, no.2, 1982, p. 150, fig. 10. In that same article, another bronze vase excavated in Inner Mongolia is also illustrated, fig. 9.