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A VERY RARE GOLD ‘DRAGON’-HANDLED CUP
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The cup has a shallow bowl with rounded sides raised on a gently fared Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 53A.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art Under the
ring foot. The handle is exquisitely executed in repoussé from two gold
sheets as a dragon head suspending a loose ring from its clenched jaws. Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-1368), 1968, cat. nos. 34a, 34b.
The cup is chased with a narrow band of foliate scroll below the mouth New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain.
rim, and the bottom of the interior is chased with three peony blossoms The Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 22, an exhibition touring the
United States and shown also at nine other museums.
borne on leafy, scrolling stems on a stippled ground within
a ‘bead’ border.
LITERATURE
4¡ in. (11.2 cm.) wide; weight 72.1 g Osvald Sirén, Kinas Konst under Tre Artusenden, vol. II, Stockholm,
1943, pl. 364.
$600,000-800,000 P. W. Meister, ‘Edelmetallarbeiten der Mongolen-Zeit’,
Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, No. 14, Berlin, 1938, pl. 7.
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
PROVENANCE
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 53A.
Madame L. Wannieck Collection, Paris, before 1937.
R. Soame Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art. The Minor Arts,
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
Fribourg, 1963, pl. 14.
no. CK53A.
Zhang Linsheng, ‘Zhongguo gudai di jingjin gongyi’, The National
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, No. 14, Berlin, 1984, p. 59,
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 104.
fg. 32.
EXHIBITED Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of
Cologne, Kölnische Kunstverein, Asiatische Kunst, 1926, cat. no. 44. Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999,
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Arts de la Chine Ancienne, 1937, cat. no. 168. pl. 50.
Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og Chinese Ceramic Treasures, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern
Dansk eje, 1950, cat. no. 178. Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 50.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
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