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A SILVER ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ CUP
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
The rounded sides are formed by four bands of petals radiating from the
convex center chased with two bees resting on closely packed stamens.
3q in. (9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$8,000-12,000
A silver chrysanthemum-form cup similarly decorated on the interior with a
pair of bees resting on packed stamens, but raised on a tall, flared foot, was
unearthed from a Yuan dynasty cache in Qiaotouhe town, Lianyuan city, in
present day Loudi, Hunan province. See Yang Zhishi et al., Hunan Song Yuan (another view)
jiaocang jin yin qi fa xian yu yan jiu (The Discovery and Research on Gold and
Silver Wares Unearthed from Caches of Song and Yuan Dynasties in Hunan),
Beijing, 2009, p. 281, no. 572.

私́珍藏
宋ǎ銀菊瓣式盃

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ⱷ760
A SILVER ‘LOTUS’ CUP 私人珍藏
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
宋 銀蓮式盃
The cup has rounded sides chased with overlapping petals with stamens
rising over the top row just below the mouth rim. The center of the interior is 銘文：王氏奩具
chased with a ring of stamens encircling a seed pod. The stem foot is incised
with a narrow band of undulating waves below a four-character inscription on
one side reading Wang Shi lian ju (Wang Shi’s precious dressing case).
3æ in. (9.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$6,000-8,000
A very similar gilt-silver cup, described as a wine cup and dated to the
Southern Song dynasty, excavated in 1981 in Jiangsu province, Liyang area,
and now in the Zhenjiang City Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu
jinghua daquan, qingtong juan (The Compendium of Chinese Art, Gold,
Silver, Jade and Stone), Hong Kong, 1994, p. 140, no. 149. Unlike the present
cup, the splayed foot of the Zhenjiang cup is decorated with pendent
overlapping petals and lacks an inscription.

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