A BRONZE ARCHAISTIC PEAR-SHAPED VASE Yuan/early Ming DynastyA BRONZE ARCHAISTIC PEAR-SHAPED VASEYuan/early Ming DynastyThe elegantly elongated ovoid body rising from a spreading foot with key-fret band to a tall cylindrical neck, the shoulders decorated with four long cicada lappets, flanked by a pair of taotie-mask handles issuing small loops, the bronze with a dark chocolate-brown patina. 25cm (10in) high.Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價元/明早期 銅蟬紋鋪首耳瓶Provenance: Ulrich Hausmann collectionSotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2014, lot 3394.來源：Ulrich Hausmann 舊藏香港蘇富比，2014年10月8日，拍品編號3394Similar decoration of divided lappets running up the shoulder can be found on a double-handled pear-shaped vase, Yuan dynasty, illustrated by M.Maucuer, Bronzes de la Chine Imperiale des Song aux Qing, Paris, 2013, p.136, no.86. Similar lappets are also found on a double-handled pear-shaped vase, Yuan dynasty, illustrated D.Failla, Food for the Ancestors Flowers for the Gods: Transformations of Archaistic Bronzes in China and Japan, Genoa, 2017, p.308, no.22.2. Another vase with similar lappets, 12th/14th century, is illustrated by R.Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1990, p.24, no.14.