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MASTERPIECES OF EARLY CHINESE GOLD AND SILVER | 金紫銀青 - 中國早期金銀器粹珍

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A FINE AND RARE LARGE SILVER LADLE
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The deep, petal-lobed bowl is fnely engraved on the exterior with three
LITERATURE
birds amidst leafy foliate scroll on a minutely ring-punched ground, and Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
the long handle is decorated with further foliate scroll and terminates in Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 105.
a bird’s head. Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
10º in. (26 cm.) long; weight 67.5 g Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, 1957, pl. 15a, fg. 95g.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cuibian [Tang Gold and Silver in
$40,000-60,000 Chinese and overseas collections], Xi’an, 1989, pl. 198.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 110.
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, 唐 銀鏨刻花鳥紋花形勺
no. CK105.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 62.
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 105.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 50, an exhibition touring the United
States and shown also at nine other museums.

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