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TWO GILT-BRONZE CUPS
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
One is a stem cup engraved with a wide band of leafy scroll reserved on a ring-punched
ground between narrow bands of similar decoration above and below, and repeated on
the spreading foot. The other cup has waisted sides similarly engraved with leafy scroll
between similar narrow borders, all with the addition of birds. A related design is on the
base.
Both 2º in. (5.7 cm.) high

(2)
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1991.
The second cup is similar in shape and decoration to a silver cup, on which the
decoration is repoussé rather than engraved, in the Frederick M. Mayer Collection,
sold at Christie’s London, 24-25 June 1974, lot 153, and also included in the exhibition,
The Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957, no. 344.

唐 鎏金銅纏枝花卉紋杯兩件

80 THE HARRIS COLLECTION:
IMPORTANT EARLY CHINESE ART