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A RARE GOLD OPENWORK ‘LOTUS’ HAIRPIN A BRONZE OIL LAMP
SONG DYNASTY TANG DYNASTY
the finial cast as a blossoming lotus flower just before full five leaf-form feet arching to support a wide circular drip
bloom, the three layers of petals overlapping and with the pan with an everted rim, a conical post rising from the
tips of the innermost petals curving toward the center, each center of the pan and opening into a second pan modeled
petal rendered with an openwork design, the center of the as a lotus blossom with naturalistic undulating petals, then
flower hollow, the post wrapped in a sheet of gold foil worked extending further to support a small hexalobed oil cup at the
in repoussé with a stippled pattern imitating the texture of a pinnacle, in the lower drip pan three jovial lokapala modeled
lotus stem, Lucite stand (2) completely in the round each extending one arm up to
Length 5⅜ in., 13.6 cm support the central lotus-form pan and swinging their other
arm merrily outward, the guardians dressed in tunics and
PROVENANCE armor and with their characteristic bulging eyes and high
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 20th August 1999. cheekbones
Height 4⅞ in., 12.4 cm
EXHIBITED
PROVENANCE
Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr. Franco
Vannotti, Hans Popper and Others, Eskenazi, London, 1989, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 4th December 2001.
cat. no. 62. $ 15,000-20,000
For a Song dynasty gold floriform hairpin finial, of similar
style though cast solid rather than in openwork, see one 唐 銅天王花式五足燈
excavated in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province illustrated in
Zhenjiang chutu jin yin qi [Gold and Silver wares unearthed 來源：藍理捷，紐約，2001年12月4日
in Zhenjiang], Beijing, 2012, pl. 109. See also a Song dynasty
gold repoussé headband, worked and patterned similarly
to the sheet wrapping the post of the present hairpin, also 102
excavated in Zhenjiang and published in ibid., pl. 122. For Song AN ARCHAIC BRONZE VESSEL AND COVER (DUI)
dynasty gold jewelry produced with openwork floral designs, EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, WARRING STATES
see a pair of hairpins and a necklace published in Pierre Uldry,
Chinesisches Gold Und Silber, Zurich, 1994, pls 289 and 290. PERIOD 101
99
the deep sides resting on a short straight foot and set with
$ 6,000-8,000 a pair of beast-mask handles each suspending a loose ring,
surmounted by a domed cover with four dragon-form finials
宋 金鏤空蓮花釵 that serve as legs when the lid is turned over, decorated
overall with bands of stylized interlocking dragon heads
來源： and hooked scrolls reserved against a striated ground, all
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1999年8月20日 bordered by bands of double helix, patinated to a mottled
golden brown (2)
展覽： Diameter 9¾ in., 24.7 cm
《Chinese and Korean Art from the Collections of Dr.
Franco Vannotti, Hans Popper and Others》，埃斯卡納 PROVENANCE
齊，倫敦，1989年，編號62 J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 20th February 1999.
EXHIBITED
100 Ancient China: Jades, Bronzes & Ceramics, J.J. Lally & Co.,
New York, 1999, cat. no. 30.
A SMALL BEIGE JADE DISC Compare a vessel of similar form inlaid with silver and
WARRING STATES PERIOD - HAN DYNASTY turquoise and decorated with confronting bird motifs,
of circular section centered with an aperture, each side included in the exhibition Chinese Art of the Warring States
carved with a ground of raised spirals, the inner and outer Period: Change and Continuity, 480-222 B.C., Freer Gallery
edges with a raised rim, the translucent stone a greenish- of Art, Washington D.C., 1982, cat. no. 9, where a related
beige tone with fine russet veining, stand (2) silver-inlaid bronze vessel, excavated in 1965 from Tomb 2
Diameter 1¾ in., 4.5 cm at Wang Shan, Hubei province, is discussed. Another vessel
with confronting birds is illustrated in Jenny So, Eastern
PROVENANCE Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections,
Washington, D.C., 1995, pl. 85. See also a dui with splayed
Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, 13th February 1999.
feet and set with pair of loop handles on the cover and bowl,
formerly in the J. T. Tai & Co. Collection and sold in these
LITERATURE rooms, 22nd March 2011, lot 185.
Private Passions: Connoisseurship in Collecting Chinese Art,
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, 1998, pl. 5. The engraved motifs on the present vessel bear strong
similarities to contemporaneous lacquerware designs. For
$ 5,000-7,000 example, compare the bird and dragon scroll found on the
side of a lacquered se excavated from Tomb no. 1 of Marquis
100 Yi of Zeng in Suizhou, Hubei, now preserved in the Hubei
戰國至漢 玉穀紋環 Provincial Museum, Wuhan.
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來源： $ 10,000-15,000
Bernstein & Co.，舊金山，1999年2月13日
東周 戰國 銅龍紋敦
出版：
《Private Passions: Connoisseurship in Collecting Chinese 來源：藍理捷，紐約，1999年2月20日
Art》，S. Bernstein & Co.，舊金山，1998，圖版5
展覽：《Ancient China: Jades, Bronzes & Ceramics》，
藍理捷，紐約，1999年，編號30
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