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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 VERY RARE GOLD DISH
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
The circular dish is chased in the center with a dense, elegant design of two leafy, S-shaped stems,
each bearing a large blossom, and the fat, everted rim is chased with a band of ‘cash’ pattern below
the rolled edge.
5º in. (13.5 cm.) diam.; weight 103 g
$300,000-500,000

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. 52.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008,
lot 106.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
1954-55, cat. no. 52.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 52.
R. Soame Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art. The Minor Arts, London, 1963, pl. 15.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities
in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 49.
宋 金刻花紋盤

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