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A FINE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE BELT PLAQUE
Tang Dynasty
The upper face decorated in crisp shallow relief
with a heavily-armoured warrior Immortal seated
on a cloud raft trailing ribbons and holding a sword
across his lap, flanked at the left by a lady holding
a tiered vessel, and at the right by a ferocious
guardian attendant, the surface with much shallow
gilding remaining except on the points of highest
relief, one end of the plaque curved in a gentle
crescent, the other straight, fitted box.
9cm (3 1/2in) wide. (2).
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

唐 銅鎏金仙人紋帶銙

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2007,
no.8

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2007年，編號8 70

The present lot is very rare with its depiction of
celestial figures. See a related set of belt ornaments,
decorated with seated male figures, illustrated
in Bronze Articles for Daily Use: The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, 2007, p.201, no.178.

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A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE COMB
Tang Dynasty
The gilt upper section of the comb shaped as a
crescent moon, decorated in repoussé with a pair
of birds in flight by a large leafy flower, all on a ring-
punched ground, between two rocks on either side,
framed by a beaded border, above a wave border
and beneath pine needles, box. 14cm (5 1/2in)
wide. (2).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve.
本拍品不設底價

唐 局部鎏金銅花鳥紋梳

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger
Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition, London, 2009,
no.11.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，
倫敦，2009年，編號11
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See a similar parcel-gilt bronze comb, Tang dynasty,
in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection,
Tokyo, 1989, no.337. See another example
illustrated by C.Deydier, Imperial Gold from Ancient
China, London, 1990, pp.30-31, no.7.

A related parcel-gilt comb, Tang dynasty, was sold
at Sotheby’s London, 14 May 2008, lot 50; another,
Tang dynasty, from the Carl Kempe Collection, was
sold at Christie’s New York, 12 September 2019,
lot 564.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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