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A RARE AND LARGE ENGRAVED SILVER LADLE 唐 銀鏨刻花鳥紋花葉式勺
TANG DYNASTY
來源：
the deep petal-lobed bowl delicately chased and engraved with
three small birds amongst flowering scrolling foliage on a ring- 吉賽爾，布魯塞爾，1997年11月20日
punched ground, the elegantly curved long handle similarly
decorated with a sinuous foliate meander and terminating in a
bird’s head
26.8 cm, 10½ in.
PROVENANCE
Gisèle Croës, Brussels, 20th November 1997.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 52,000-77,500

A closely related ladle was included in the exhibition
Chinesisches Gold und Silber. Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry,
Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1994, cat. no. 157; another fine
silver ladle of this elegant form similarly chased and engraved
with small birds amongst flowering scrolling foliage on a fine
ring-punched ground, from the collection of the Hon. Hugh
Scott and included in the China Institute in America exhibition
Early Chinese Gold and Silver, China House Gallery, New York,
1971, cat. no. 72, and illustrated in Hugh Scott, The Golden
Age of Chinese Art, Rutland, Vermont, 1967, pl. 13, was sold at
Christie’s New York, 4th December 1982, lot 399. Compare a
very similar example, of slightly smaller proportions, illustrated
in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe
Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 105, sold in our London rooms,
14th May 2008, lot 62, and again at Christie’s New York, 12th
September 2019, lot 553.

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