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A QUADRILOBED SILVER CUP
SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)
The small, quadrilobed cup is decorated in the center of the interior with The quadrilobed shape and band of classic scroll seen on this rare cup
a reserve of conforming shape worked in repoussé outline that encloses can also be seen on a gold cup illustrated by Jianshe Yu, ed., Essence of
a fnely engraved, recumbent deer supporting a medallion incised with a Chifeng Historical Relics Series, Chifeng Jin Yi Qi, 2006, p. 179, pl. CJ122,
fu character, all below a band of classic scrolls fnely punched below the where it is dated Jin dynasty (1115-1234). Rather than the band of classic
rim on the exterior. scrolls being fnely punched, as on the present bowl, it is ring-punched.
See, also, the circular gold bowl (8.4 cm. diam.) with a band of punched
3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) wide; weight 43.2 g
classic scrolls below the rolled rim, dated Song to Yuan, illustrated in
$6,000-8,000 Celestial Creations: Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang
Collection, vol. I, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 2007, pp. 234-35, no. D35.
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953. 宋/明 銀鏨刻福祿紋四曲盌
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 105.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 138.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 65, an exhibition touring the United
States and shown also at nine other museums.

LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 138.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 140.

(another view)