Hexagonal vase with cloud-shaped handles
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This elegant vase represents an aesthetic revolution in its creative reinterpretation of an ancient bronze vessel. Its intricate décor follows archaic models but accommodates contemporary design, such as the vegetal scrolls and modified animal masks. Its long flaring neck and pear-shaped body are unmistakable features of thirteenth to the fourteenth century ceramics. However, its hexagonal form, readily created in cast bronze, influenced contemporary ceramics. The vessel’s intricately-cast patterns are also characteristic of Yuan-dynasty bronzes.
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