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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 SILVER BRACELET A FINE GOLD BRACELET
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The fat silver sheet is worked into a C-shape with tapering ends The C-shaped bracelet is fnely engraved with two cartouches, one
wrapped with silver wire and ending in a spiral ring at each end. enclosing a bird and a running mythical beast, the other with a scrolling
lotus spray, all against a ring-punched ground. Each tapering end is
2Ω in. (6.5 cm.) wide; weight 16.8 g
wrapped with gold wire and ends in a spiraled ring.
$1,000-1,500
2Ω in. (6.4 cm.) wide; weight 36.2 g
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. PROVENANCE
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 94. Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK44.
EXHIBITED
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 46.
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 127.
EXHIBITED
LITERATURE
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 44.
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 127.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 19, an exhibition touring the United
Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, fg. 28b.
States and shown also at nine other museums.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 128. LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
唐 銀鐲 Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 44.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, pl. 7f, fg. 70n.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 42.
唐 金鏨刻花鳥紋鐲

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