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A SILVER FLANGED CUP
JIN-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The shallow cup is decorated on the interior with a single lotus fower, shape, dated Song dynasty, also chased in the center of the interior
and has a fat, fange-like handle decorated in repoussé stippling with with a fower stem, and with foliate scroll on the fange handle, in the
foliate scroll projecting from the rim on one side. collection of the Hon. Senator Hugh Scott, is illustrated by Dr. Paul
Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, China Institute in America, New
4 in. (10.2 cm.) wide; weight 50 g
York, 1971-1972, p. 68, no. 98. See, also, the white stoneware cup of
$15,000-25,000 similar shape dated to the Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century, in the Kai-yin
Lo Collection, illustrated in Bright as Silver - White as Snow, Hong Kong,
1998, pl. 18, where it is suggested that fanged cups of this type would
PROVENANCE
have served as brush washers.
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK136. 金/元 銀刻蓮紋鋬耳洗
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 107.

EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 136.

LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 136.
Michael Vickers, Oliver Impey and James Allan, From Silver to Ceramic,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1986, pl. 35.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 138.
Silver and gold vessels, often made for use at the imperial court, were
often the inspiration for ceramic interpretations, such as the white
stoneware cup from the Ingram Collection illustrated by Michael Vickers
(another view)
et al., From Silver to Ceramic, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1986, pl. 35,
where it is illustrated with the present silver cup. A gold cup of similar