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486
A SILVER STEM CUP
Tang Dynasty
Of circular form with deep walls, rising from a spreading stem foot to a
flared rim, the body decorated with a single raised band below the rim,
the surface with some malachite encrustation.
7.8cm (2 7/8in) high.

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

唐 高足銀杯

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2009, no.6

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，
2009年，編號6

Undecorated silver stem cups are comparatively rare, although the
plain surfaces are particularly effective in emphasising the exquisite
Tang shapes with their harmonious profiles and sharp edges. A copper
alloy stem cup of the same shape in the Kuboso Memorial Museum of
Art, Izumi, is published in Sekai bijutsu tai zenshu, vol.4, Tokyo, 1997, 486
pl.161.

Compare also with an undecorated Tang silver cup with a ring handle,
with a similar plain raised rib below the rim, excavated at Shapo, Xi’an
and now in the Shaanxi History Museum, included in the exhibition The
Glory of the Silk Road. Art from Ancient China, Dayton Art Institute,
Dayton, Ohio, 2003, no.106; and another cup of very similar form as
the present lot, decorated with hunting scenes, from the same site but
now in the National Museum of China, Beijing, ibid., no.105.

A similar undecorated silver stem cup, Tang dynasty, 7th-8th century,
formerly in the Carl Kempe collection, was sold at Sotheby’s London,
14 May 2008, lot 58.
487
A RARE SILVER-ALLOY LEAF-SHAPED HORSE-HARNESS
FITTING
Liao Dynasty
Comprising a lobed rectangular box linked by woven wire through
suspension loops to a pendent leaf-shaped plaque cast in shallow
relief with an undulating vine issuing tendrils below a cluster of five leaves
on a ring-matted ground, light malachite encrustation on the back.
Overall 12.7cm (5in) long.

£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

遼 銀合金杏葉馬飾

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2006, no.8.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2006年，
編號8

A similar horse fitting, unearthed in 1954 from a Liao King’s tomb at
Dayingzi, Chifeng County, in Ju Ud Meng, is illustrated in Chugogku
Naimoko: Hoppo Kiba Minzoku Bunbutsu Ten, Tokyo, 1983, no.88.
487

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