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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 SUPERB AND EXTREMELY RARE TURQUOISE-INLAID GOLD
OPENWORK CHAPE
NORTHWEST CHINA, LATE 6TH-EARLY 5TH CENTURY BC
EXHIBITED
This chape is fnely decorated on each side in a complex openwork Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
design of eleven interlaced serpents within a border of stylized bird- Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-1955, cat. no. 1.
heads that rise from small animal heads with turquoise inlay at the New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The
bottom corners that fank a band of volutes on each side. The tip of the Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 1, an exhibition touring the United States
chape is formed as a dragon head. and shown also at nine other museums.
2¿ in. (5.3 cm.) high; weight 35.2 g LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
$300,000-500,000
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 1.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 1.
PROVENANCE
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK1. 公元前六世紀末/前五世紀初 金嵌綠松石鏤空蟠虺紋刀鞘首
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 19.

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