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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 CIRCULAR GOLD PLAQUE
LATE WARRING STATES PERIOD, 3RD CENTURY BC
LITERATURE
The gold sheet plaque is chased on the convex center with six interlaced Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
serpents, their heads facing the ‘bead’ border and their spines and tails Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 5.
detailed with stippling. The out-turned edge of the plaque is Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
pierced for attachment. and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 5.
2¡ in. (6.2 cm.) diam.; weight 12.5 g A very similar plaque is illustrated in Exhibition of Chinese Arts, C. T. Loo
$6,000-8,000 & Co., New York ,1941-1942, no. 207, identifed as being from Jincun, and
now in the collection of The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Two others are
in the collections of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm
PROVENANCE and the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University. A larger example (14 cm.
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, diam.) described as the gold veneer covering of a bronze plaque, dated
no. CK5. Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC), is illustrated by Simon Kwan
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. and Sun Ji, Chinese Gold Ornaments, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 150-51,
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 18. pl. 13.

EXHIBITED
戰國晚期 金蟠虺紋圓飾
Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og
Dansk eje, 1950, cat. no.168.
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 5.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 4, an exhibition touring the United States
and shown also at nine other museums.

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