A RARE BRONZE TALL OCTAGONAL CUP Yuan DynastyA RARE BRONZE TALL OCTAGONAL CUPYuan DynastyCrisply cast with eight tapering sides rising from a spreading foot, the exterior with panels enclosing a diamond-pattern, the bronze of chocolate-brown tone. 12.1cm (4 3/4in) high.Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價元 銅菱形紋八角杯During most of the Song dynasty, ceramic vessels were circular or lobed in section, but in the Yuan dynasty, a secondary, parallel taste emerged for polygonal vessels, evinced by several 14th century blue and white octagonal bottles and jars from Jingdezhen. For a discussion on this, see China's Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H.Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, 1993, p.33.