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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT LARGE PARCEL-GILT
SILVER BOWL
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
EXHIBITED
The large bowl is fnely worked in repoussé with three rows of Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
overlapping lotus petals, each gilded and exquisitely chased with a Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 117.
pair of birds in fight confronted on a ribbon tied in four loops against a New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
background of leafy foliate sprays amidst leafy foliage, all below a further Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 57, an exhibition touring the United
row of smaller repoussé petals that alternate with clusters of stamen States and shown also at nine other museums.
below slender lancelot leaf tips that point towards the everted rim. The
LITERATURE
center of the interior is chased with a large medallion depicting eight
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
birds in fight against a background of leafy foliate sprays as they encircle
Stockholm, 1953, pl. 117.
a ribbon tied in four loops with trailing ends.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
9¬ in. (24.5 cm.) diam.; weight 1052 g Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, pl. 24b, fg. 39c.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cuibian [Tang gold and silver in
$2,000,000-3,000,000
Chinese and overseas collections], Xi’an, 1989, pl. 146.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
PROVENANCE and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 119.
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, Qi Dongfang, Tangdai jin yin qi yan jiu [Research on Tang gold and silver],
no. CK117. Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 50.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 54. 唐 銀局部鎏金花鳥紋蓮瓣式盌

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