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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 TINNED-BRONZE LADLE A SILVER SPOON
SIX DYNASTIES PERIOD (AD 222-589) TANG-SONG DYNASTY, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
The ladle has a bowl of deep, peaked shape and a long, slender handle The almost fat bowl is engraved with two fsh swimming amidst waves,
that is decorated with notches and ends in a bud-shaped terminal. and the long, fat handle is engraved with a cartouche enclosing two
birds and a lotus.
6º in. (16 cm.) long; weight 9.4 g
9√ in. (25 cm.) long; weight 71.5 g
$3,000-5,000
$4,000-6,000
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden. PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 72. no. CK141.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
LITERATURE
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 103.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 130. EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
六朝 錫銅勺 Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 141.
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 141.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cuibian [Tang Gold and Silver in
Chinese and overseas collections], Xi’an, 1989, pl. 201.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 142.

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