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Fig. 2 Brush washer, Jun ware, Northern Song dynasty, early 12th century. Asia Society, New York: Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, (the current gold cup)
1979.138. Photography by Synthescape, courtesy of Asia Society. Photo credit: Asia Society / Art Resource, NY.
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In addition to related gold cups unearthed in Inner Mongolia, the The most famous Jun examples include one in the Mr. and Mrs. With its engaging shape, handsome design, burnished side 1 Kai-yin Lo, Bright as Silver, White as Snow: Chinese White Ceramics from Late Tang to
collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, includes John D. Rockefeller 3 Collection at The Asia Society, New York walls, and delicately chased decoration, this exquisite gold cup Yuan Dynasty: Examples from the Kai-yin Lo Collection (Hong Kong: Yungmingtang),
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1998, (translated by Brenda W.L. Li), p. 120.
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an allied gold cup (M.30-1935), (Fig.1) and J.J. Lally & Co., New (1979.138) (Fig. 2), one in the Sir Herbert Ingram Collection at ranks amongst the masterpieces of the Chinese goldsmith’s art.
2 Wang Jianqi and Shao Qinglong, eds., Chengjisihan: Zhongguo gudai beifang caoyuan
York, featured a kindred gold cup in the March 2002 exhibition the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University (EA1956.1326), and Noteworthy also for its distinguished provenance and lengthy
youmu wenhua [Genghis Khan: The Ancient Nomadic Culture of the Northern China],
Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty (cat. no. 11). another in the Sir Percival David Collection now housed at the record of exhibition and publication, it stands alongside the rarest
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1st ed. (Beijing: Beijing Chubanshe), 2004, p. 270.
Formerly in the collection of Carl Kempe (1884–1967), a silver cup British Museum, London (PDF.67). A similarly shaped Yaozhou treasures from the Song dynasty.
3 See: Susan Whitfield, ed., The Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (Chicago:
of similar form and with related lotus-blossom décor on its floor vessel—which has been termed a xi, or brush washer, by the Serindia Publications), 2004, p. 239, pl. 169. According to Victoria and Albert
sold at Christie’s, New York, on 12 September 2019, lot 583. 5 museum curators—and now in the Capital Museum, Beijing, was Robert D. Mowry Museum records, this cup was originally attributed to the Tang dynasty but was
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus, re-attributed to the Yuan dynasty on 22 September 2009 by Peking University
excavated from a Jin-dynasty tomb in Beijing. A “moon white”
Harvard Art Museums, and Professor Qi Dongfang, who is a specialist in Chinese gold and silver. Also see:
In Song and Jin times, vessels of this shape inspired ceramic Yaozhou vessel, also termed a xi and now in the Yaozhou Kiln Senior Consultant, Christie’s https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O93536/cup-unknown/
imitations in Jun ware and Yaozhou ware; whatever their function Museum, Shaanxi province, was one of the thirty-six, Jin-dynasty, 4 See: J.J. Lally & Co., ed., Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty, March 18–
might have been at the time of manufacture, those vessels were Yaozhou vessels in a cache recovered at Liulinzhen, Yaozhouqu, April 8, 2002 (New York: J.J. Lally & Co.), 2002, no. 11.
often used as brush washers by Ming- and Qing-period literati. Tongchuan, Shaanxi province in April 1988. 6 5 See: Christie’s, New York, ed., Masterpieces of Early Chinese Gold and Silver, 12
September 2019 (New York: Christie’s), 2019, p. 155, Lot 583.
6 At the time of the discovery, the place was known as Liulinxiang, Yaoxian, Tongchuan,
Shaanxi province.
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