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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 AND FINELY DECORATED GOLD ‘PEONY’ DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The dish is fnely chased in the center with a medallion enclosing seven, small ring-punches
that form a circle within a border of overlapping hatching, all encircled by a wide band of densely
arranged peony stems bearing fve large blossoms on a stippled ground within a border of stamen.
The fat, everted rim is chased with a band of foliate scroll below the rolled edge.

6¿ in. (15.6 cm.) diam.; weight 121.1 g
$200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE
Madame L. Wannieck, Paris, before 1937.
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK53B.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008,
lot 102.

EXHIBITED
Cologne, Kölnische Kunstverein, Asiatische Kunst, 1926, cat. no. 44.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Arts de la Chine Ancienne, 1937, cat. no. 168.
Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og Dansk eje, 1950, cat. no. 178.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
1954-55, cat. no. 53B.
Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yüan Dynasty (1279-
1368), 1968, cat. nos. 34a, 34b.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, 1971,
cat. no. 22, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.
LITERATURE
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, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 53B.
Zhang Linsheng, ‘Zhongguo gudai di jingjin gongyi’, The National Palace Museum Monthly of
Chinese Art, No. 14, Beijing, 1984, p. 59, fg. 32.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities
in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 51.
Chinese Ceramic Treasures, A Selection from Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, including The Carl
Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn,
2002, pl. 51.
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