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A SILVER ‘MAKARA’ PENDANT, SONG - YUAN A GOLD ‘FLORAL’ HAIRPIN, SOUTHERN SONG 南宋 金鏨花卉紋釵
DYNASTY DYNASTY
total weight 24.77 grams
Height 2⅞ in., 7.3 cm
Length 7⅛ in., 18.1 cm
The form of this pendant and the workmanship of its
metal sides bear a strong correlation to a gold openwork Several gold hairpins of this type have been found in
‘duck and lotus’ pendant excavated from a tomb in Wu Southern Song dynasty tombs in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu
County, Jiangsu province, illustrated in Zhou Fan and province, including two pairs identical to the present, and
Kao Cunming, Zhongguo lidai funü zhuangshi [Decorative a closely related set in which the two rods are connected
Clothing and Accessories of Chinese Women throughout by a shared ‘floral’ U-shaped finial and signed Wang zuo
History], Hong Kong, 1988, pl. 398. The style of the makaras, gongfu (made by Master Wang), all in the collection of
themselves, also closely resemble the makara designs the Zhenjiang Museum and illustrated in Zhenjiang chutu
woven into a 13th century lampa textile in the collection of jinyinqi [Gold and silver wares unearthed in Zhenjiang],
the Cleveland Museum of Art, included in the exhibition The Beijing, 2012, pls 112 and 125. See also a gold hairpin of the
World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese art in the Yuan Dynasty, The same type as the present in the collection of the Pengzhou
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, cat. no. 41. City Museum published in Sichuan Pengzhou Songdai
jinyinqi jiaocang Song dynasty gold and silver works stored
$ 8,000-12,000 in Pengzhou city, Sichuan province, Beijing, 2003, col. pl. 7.1;
and another exhibited in Jin yao fenghua: Mengdiexuan cang
Zhongguo gudai jinshi / Radiant Legacy: Ancient Chinese
243 宋至元 銀鏨摩羯紋帔墜 Gold from the Mengdiexuan Collection, Art Museum, The
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2013, p. 23.

$ 15,000-25,000

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A RARE SILVER ‘BIRD’ JAR, TANG DYNASTY,
8TH - 9TH CENTURY
Height 3 in., 7.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs. Dague Eliane, prior to 2003.
The circular marking on one side of this vessel indicates that
it likely once sported a handle. For a related handled silver
cup of a very similar form, see a an example decorated with
parcel-gilt flower sprays, attributed to the 8th-9th century,
formerly in the collection of Dr. Paul Singer and Arthur M.
Sackler, now preserved in the National Museum of Asian
Art, Washington, D.C., published on the Museum’s website
(accession no. S2012.9.2100).
⊖ $ 3,000-5,000

唐八至九世紀 銀鏨花團鳥紋小罐
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來源
Dague Eliane 夫人收藏，2003年之前

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