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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO
SUPPORT ART ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
902
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.
9æ in. (24.7 cm.) high
$10,000-15,000
PROVENANCE:
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923),
Springfield, Massachusetts, acquired prior to 1910.

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.

斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
元 銅仿古水波紋貫耳壺
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞
州，入藏於1910年以前。