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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A FINE AND RARE GILT-BRONZE ENGRAVED
WINE CUP
TANG DYNASTY
of small size, the bowl with horizontal groove just below
the slightly everted lip, finely engraved in three zones with
birds in flight and perched amidst scrolling, flowering plants,
above a short ‘canopy’ engraved with dentate ornament,
supported on a spherical-knopped stem and conical foot, the
latter engraved with floral meander on a granulated ground
matching the body
7.3 cm, 2⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Joseph Homberg.
Sotheby’s, London, 19th July 1949, lot 85.
Sotheby’s, London, 11th May 1965, lot 83 (1,350 GBP).
A similar cup was in the Carl Kempe Collection, decorated
with horsemen and hunting scenes, illustrated by Bo
Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver, pl. 109a; and another
also in gilt bronze, illustrated by Percival Yetts, Catalogue
of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, pl. 70 fig. B 314. For silver
examples see Gyllensvard, B.M.F.E.A., no. 29, pl. 8d; Jenys
and Watson, Chinese Art (1963), pl. 20, an example in the
Desmond Gure Collection; and the Catalogue of the Berlin
Exhibition, 1929, no. 438.
Rare coupe à vin en bronze doré à décor gravé, dynastie Tang
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15 000-20 000 €

唐 鎏金銅鏨花高足盃
88 來源 :
Joseph Homberg珍藏
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ABOLALA SOUDAVAR
倫敦蘇富比，1949年7月19日，編號85
A SILVER ‘GUARDIAN’ PLAQUE
倫敦蘇富比，1965年5月11日，編號83 (1,350 英镑)
after the Liao dynasty prototype, cut and incised silhouette,
depicting a guardian king clad in an elaborate armour and
wearing a helmet, standing slightly bent backward holding a
sword
(2)
H. 27.1 cm, 10⅝ in.
PROVENANCE
Roger Keverne Ltd., London, ca. 2007.
For the Liao dynasty prototype of this plaque, see a gilded
copper door-guardian unearthed from Alukeerqin Banner,
Chifeng city, illustrated in Genghis Khan-The Ancient
Nomadic Cullture of the Nothern China, Beijing, 2004, p. 229.
Plaque en argent représentant un gardien
9 000-15 000 €

銀天神立像牌
來源 :
Roger Keverne Ltd. ，倫敦 ，約2007年

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