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AN EXTREMELY RARE GOLD AND SILVER- Recent scholarship on later Chinese bronzes, however,
INLAID BRONZE TORTOISE-FORM BOX AND suggests that a Song dynasty attribution is more accurate.
JADE COVER, SONG DYNASTY The overall patina of the bronze, with traces of the artificial
encrustation on the surface, is consistent with known Song
(2) dynasty examples, such as a gold and silver-inlaid bronze
Length 4⅝ in., 11.8 cm
pouring vessel in the form of a goose, patinated in a similar
style, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated
PROVENANCE
in Rose Kerr, Later Chinese Bronzes, London, 1953, p. 16, figs
Collection of Wilfred Fleisher (1897-1976), acquired in Japan 4 and 5, where the author notes the artificial patination on the
in the 1920s to early 1930s, and thence by descent.
bronze; and also a gold and silver-inlaid bronze figure of a tapir
with a similar patina, exhibited in the Burlington Fine Arts Club,
EXHIBITED
London, in 1915, sold at Christie’s Paris, 12th June 2012, lot 286.
Celadon Jade, The National Museum, Stockholm, 1963.
Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert $ 30,000-50,000
Museum, London, 1975, cat. no. 276.
宋 銅錯金銀龜形鎮連玉蓋
LITERATURE
Desmond Gure, ‘Selected Examples from the Jade Exhibition
at Stockholm, 1963’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern 來源：
Antiquities, vol. 36, Stockholm, 1964, p. 153, pl. 30.1. Wilfred Fleisher (1897-1976) 收藏，1920年代至
1930年代初得於日本，此後家族傳承
The present lot was attributed to the Song dynasty in the
1963 exhibition at the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in
Stockholm. Desmond Gure, however, in his post-exhibition 展覽：
article notes that ‘further investigation since then has 《Celadon Jade》，國立博物館，斯德哥爾
resulted in a Han attribution for the bronze part’ (see 摩，1963年
‘Selected Examples from the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm, 《Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages》，維多利亞和阿
1963’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 爾伯特博物館，倫敦，1975年，編號276
vol. 36, Stockholm, 1964, p. 153, pl. 30.1). Compare a Han
dynasty gilt-bronze tortoise-shaped weight inset with a
seashell in the Idemitsu Collection, published in Ancient 出版：
Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, pl. Desmond Gure，〈Selected Examples from
242. See also a gold and silver-inlaid bronze tortoise weight, the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm，1963年〉，
attributed to late Warring States to early Han dynasty, from 《Bulletin of the Museum of Far East Antiques》
the collection of Anthony Hardy, published in Li Xueqin, ，卷36，斯德哥爾摩，1964年，圖版30.1
Zhongguo qingtongqi cuishang / The Glorious Traditions of
Chinese Bronzes, Singapore, 2000, pl. 80, and later sold at
Christie’s New York, 16th September 2010, lot 907.

The present lot illustrated in Desmond Gure, ‘Selected
Examples from the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm, 1963’,
Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, vol. 36,
Stockholm, 1964, p. 153, pl. 30.1.
本拍品著錄於Desmond Gure，〈Selected Examples from the Jade
Exhibition at Stockholm，1963年〉，《Bulletin of the Museum of
FarEast Antiques》，卷36，斯德哥爾摩，1964年，圖版30.1

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