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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 RARE SILVER PETAL-LOBED STEM CUP
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The small bowl is worked in repoussé to form ten petals, each fnely Several silver cups of this elegant shape, similarly decorated on each
engraved with small birds in fight amidst fowering plants. The lower lobe with various birds in fight amidst plants, have been published.
body is similarly decorated with waterdrop-shaped, convex petals, each One in the Hakutsuru Art Museum, Kobe, Japan, is illustrated by B.
engraved with a bird and fowers. The knobbed and lobed foot terminates Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, B.M.F.EA., No. 29, Stockholm, 1957,
in a splayed, petal-lobed base decorated with a foral pattern. pl. 4b. Another from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, and previously in
the David Weill Collection, was sold at Christie’s New York, 1 December
2æ in., (7 cm.) diam.; weight 53 g
1994, lot 65. One is illustrated in Tangdai jin yin qi, Zhejiang Municipal
$50,000-70,000 Museum and Shaanxi Provincial Museum, 1985, fgs. 7 and 8; and
another was included in the exhibition, Masterpieces of Chinese Art From
the Art Institute of Chicago, Osaka, Japan, Museum of Oriental Ceramics,
PROVENANCE
1989, no. 25. Two gilt-bronze examples have also been published: one in
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
the collection of Dr. Pierre Uldry, Chinesisches Gold und Silber, Zurich,
no. CK111.
1994, p. 151, no. 136; the other in the St. Louis Art Museum, by Clarence
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. W. Kelley, Chinese Gold & Silver in American Collections, The Dayton Art
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 71.
Institute, Dayton, Ohio, 1984, p. 54, no. 20. The decoration on all of these
cups is highly formal in its symmetry.
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
唐 銀花鳥紋蓮瓣式小高足盃
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 111.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 111.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cuibian [Tang Gold and Silver in
Chinese and overseas collections], Xi’an, 1989, pl. 53.
Qi Dongfang, Tangdai jin yin qi yan jiu [Research on Tang gold and silver],
Beijing, 1999, p. 402, fg. 3-107-4.

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