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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 SILVER OCTAGONAL ‘PHOENIX’ CUP
LATE TANG-LIAO DYNASTY, 9TH-12TH CENTURY
EXHIBITED
The cup is fnely chased with a large phoenix standing amidst leafy Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold & Silver in the
scrolling foliage that continues around the sides between bands of Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 104.
saw-tooth pattern, all on a fne ring-punched ground. The foot is similarly
LITERATURE
decorated and the base is engraved with a central fower head. The
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection,
looped, leaf-shaped handle issues from a trefoil, foliate terminal attached
Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 104.
to the side.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far
2Ω in. (6.4 cm.) high; weight 112 g Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, pl. 9c, fgs. 24b, 63f, 95e.
Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art
$8,000-12,000
and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 109.
Qi Dongfang, Tangdai jin yin qi yan jiu [Research on Tang gold and silver],
Beijing, 1999, p. 349, fg. 3-49.
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1941) Collection, New York.
晚唐/遼 銀鳳穿花紋八稜盃
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953,
no. CK104.
Sotheby’s London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork.
Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 45.

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