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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 LARGE RETICULATED SILVER COMB
SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1279)
LITERATURE
The top of the comb is decorated in openwork with a repoussé design of Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
two boys amidst elaborate leafy fower scroll, with traces of gilding. Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 143.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
5¿ in. (13 cm.) wide; weight 71.8 g
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 143.
$2,000-3,000
宋 銀鏤空卷草童子紋篦

PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK143.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 93.
EXHIBITED
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 143.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 66, an exhibition touring the United
States and shown also at nine other museums.

(another view)