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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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TWO GOLD HAIRPINS
SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (AD 960-1368)
LITERATURE
The head of one hairpin is worked from one side in repoussé as two Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
dragons with twisted bodies rising from the needle-shaped prongs to Stockholm, 1953, cat nos. 63 and 28.
support a peony blossom. The terminal of the second hairpin is formed Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
by encircling disks that join at the top to form a loop. and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999,
pls. 55 and 57.
5Ω and 5¬ in. (14 and 14.3 cm.) long;
weight 18.3 and 17.6 g; leather box (2) The frst hairpin is similar to a gold hairpin, also with two tines that
are beaten and chased with two dragons confronted below an open
$20,000-30,000
peony blossom, illustrated by Julia M. White and Emma C. Bunker in
PROVENANCE Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, Art Museum, 1994, p. 182, pl. 84, where it is dated Song dynasty. Another
nos. CK63 and CK28. hairpin was part of a group of seven gold hair ornaments found in a
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Yuan-dynasty tomb at Zhoujiatian in Huangpi, Hubei province, and
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 114. illustrated by Yang Boda, ‘Ancient Chinese Cultures of Gold Jewellery
and Ornamentation’, Arts of Asia, Vol. 38, No. 2, March-April 2008,
EXHIBITED
p. 106, pl. 58.
Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og
Dansk eje, 1950, cat. no. 167 (part).
宋/元 金鏤空牡丹龍紋及竹節紋釵一組兩件
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.,
1954-55, cat. nos. 28 and 63.

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