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A SMALL FINELY ENGRAVED GILT-BRONZE 唐 鎏金銅鏨花狩獵紋高足小盃
'HUNTING' STEM CUP,
TANG DYNASTY 來源：
卡爾肯普博士（1884-1967年）收藏
d. 4.2 cm, h. 5 cm
倫敦蘇富比2008年11月5日，編號414
PROVENANCE 顯赫私人收藏
Collection of Dr Carl Kempe (1884-1967). 倫敦佳士得2019年5月14日，編號77
Sotheby's London, 5th November 2008, lot 414. 出版：
A distinguished private collection.
Christie's London, 14th May 2019, lot 77. Bo Gyllensvärd，《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl
Kempe Collection》，斯德哥爾摩，1953年，圖109
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe
Collection, Stockholm, 1953, fig. 109.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500

Engraved stem cups of this form are conceived after A closely related example was sold at Christie's London, 14th
Sassanian gold and silver prototypes. Bo Gyllensvärd in July 1980, lot 298; another, but with a band of stylised clouds
'Tang Gold and Silver', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern on the rim, in the Avery Brundage collection, is illustrated
Antiquities, no. 29, Stockholm, 1957, pp. 64-5, notes that the in Jan Fontein, Unearthing China's Past, Boston, 1973, pl.
form was also copied in India and is depicted in one of the 93; and a third example was sold in our London rooms, 12th
Ajanta cave paintings. Margaret Medley in Metalwork and December 1978, lot 240. Compare also a silver-gilt stem cup
Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, p. 5, mentions the Chinese of this form decorated with a hunter on one side and a camel
adapted the Persian stem cup first as a novelty and then as on the other, in the Musée Guimet, Paris, illustrated in Han
a vessel appropriate to religious purposes in the seventh Wei, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, pl. 378. See also a
century. She illustrates ibid., pl. 5, an engraved Tang silver related cup, engraved with floral and bird motifs, sold in our
cup together with a Sassanian prototype. Paris rooms, 16th June 2022, lot 87.
The motif of horsemen chasing their game with drawn
arrows is a motif characteristic of the sophistication and
prosperity of the height of the Tang dynasty.

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