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A SILVER ‘LOTUS PETAL’ STEM CUP
TANG-SONG DYNASTY, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
The cup is decorated in repoussé with three rows of overlapping lotus Tang and Song silver vessels decorated around the sides in repoussé
petals below a band of foliate scroll on a ring-punched ground enclosing with overlapping petals appear to be rare. Two rows of overlapping
the mouth rim. The circular foot is similarly decorated with further repoussé lotus petals can be seen on the sides of a pair of parcel-gilt
stylized foliage. silver bowls, each raised on a lotus leaf-shaped pedestal foot, of Tang-
dynasty date, excavated in 1987 from the Famen Monastery Pagoda,
2¬ in. (6.8 cm.) high; weight 74.7 g
Fufeng county, Shaanxi province, and illustrated by Han Wei and
$10,000-15,000 Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, p. 350, pl. 669. The
sides of a silver bowl in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr.,
illustrated by Dr. Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, China House
PROVENANCE
Gallery, New York, 1971-1972, where it is dated Song dynasty, are worked
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden. in repoussé with overlapping chrysanthemum petals. Remains of solder
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. on the bottom suggest the Falk bowl once had a stem foot.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 55.
唐/宋 銀蓮瓣紋高足盃
LITERATURE
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 106.