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A RARE GILT-BRONZE LEAF-SHAPED HORSE-HARNESS Carl Kempe belonged to a group of Chinese art connoisseurs who
PENDANT began collecting in about 1930; he was also a member of the Chinese
Tang Dynasty Club in Stockholm (a local branch of the Oriental Ceramic Society in
The front cast in crisp high relief with an upright slender predatory London). He was an early member of the OCS and lent pieces to the
animal biting the hindquarters of a running deer, within overlapping Royal Academy Exhibition, 1935-1936. He apparently visited China
folded edges of the leaf, the top with a loop for attachment, the front for the first time in 1935, and began specialising in monochrome
with much gilding remaining. whiteware porcelain after that date. His collection fell into three
7.5cm (3in) high. principal areas: Chinese gold and silver from the Zhou to the Qing
period, Chinese whitewares, and Chinese glass; but he also collected
£1,500 - 2,000 Chinese lacquer, snuff-boxes, bronzes and other metalwork, enamels,
CNY14,000 - 18,000 hardstones and Roman glassware.
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

唐 銅鎏金捕獵紋杏葉

Provenance: Dr Carl Kempe, Ekolsund, Sweden (1884-1967)

Exhibited and Published: Mostra d’Arte Cinese, Venice, 1954,
no.163 (label)

來源：瑞典收藏家卡爾·坎普（1884-1967）舊藏

展覽著錄：《Mostra d’Arte Cinese》，威尼斯，1954年，編號163
（標籤）

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