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A SMALL PARCEL-GILT SILVER BOX AND COVER
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
LITERATURE
The slightly convex box and cover are chased with a formalized fower Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
motif surrounded by small curved tendrils that issue from the narrow, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 91.
outer border, all reserved on a ring-punched ground. The straight sides Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
are similarly decorated with clouds. Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, fg. 80b.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
1 in., (2.6 cm.) diam.; weight 8.6 g
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 93.
$8,000-12,000
Circular silver boxes of this type were made in various sizes and with
various designs. A similarly small (2.8 cm. diam.) silver box with diferent
PROVENANCE decoration, described as a cosmetic box, is illustrated in Tang, Eskenazi,
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, London, 1987, no. 7.
no. CK91.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. 唐 銀局部鎏金刻卷草紋小圓蓋盒
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 84.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 91.

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