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This powerful archaistic form of flower vessel, made for the altar or scholar’s study, can be found in porcelain. For a
closely related bronze ‘arrow’ vase of similar archaistic design, recently excavated from a chamber beneath the
Zhenhai Pagoda, built in 1321 at Haiyan in Zhejiang Province, see Rose Kerr, Rethinking some Later Chinese
Bronzes, Arts of Asia Nov/Dec 2013, pp. 91-92, where she notes that the scholars who wrote up the excavation report
considered the delicate bronze vessels of Song / Yuan date, such as the one mentioned above, to be amongst the
most valuable relics of the 47 groups of objects.
