Vase with animal-mask handles and three friezes of floral scrolls

A group of qingbai vases from the shipwreck at Xin'an reveal that the production of various vases following the forms of bronze vessels with two handles and mold-stamped decoration rapidly increased during the Yuan (Ministry of Culture and Information 1983: pls. 93, 103-6). A bronze vase stylistically consistent with this piece found in a storage pit datable to the early fourteenth century confirms the prominence of this type (WW 1982.4: 65, fig. 6). Along with an identical piece at the Palace Museum, they are noteworthy for their crude rendering of the dragon image (CGK Zenshu 1984 vol. 16: pl. 154). Other images which adorn this vase include a tiger and a chevron pattern on the vessel's body.