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29. A P arcel-Gilt Silver Chrysanthemum-F orm Cup
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960–1279)

the deep flower-form bowl with two tiers of twenty-four slender petals each recessed on the interior
and convex on the exterior, rising to a scalloped rim with inset gilt-edged lip, the domed center of
the interior imitating the center of the flower, with rows of rounded bosses above a collar of gilded
leaf tips, raised on a hollow tapered foot also petal-lobed and flaring to a scalloped edge.

Diameter 3 ⁄8 inches (8.6 cm)
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A very similar silver chrysanthemum-form cup unearthed in 1959 from a Song dynasty hoard at the Xiaoquan town mosque,
Deyang county, Sichuan province, is illustrated in the excavation report in Wenwu, 1961, No. 11, plate page 4, no. 1 (right). The
same silver cup is also illustrated in Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji, gongyimeishu bian 10: jin yin boli falang qi (Compendium
of Chinese Works of Art, Arts and Crafts 10: Gold, Silver, Glass, and Cloisonné), Beijing, 1987, p. 49, no. 102 (left).
A gold chrysanthemum-form cup unearthed in 1993 from a Song dynasty hoard is illustrated in Sichuan Pengzhou Song dai
jinyinqi jaocang (The Song Dynasty Gold and Silver Hoard from Pengzhou in Sichuan), Beijing, 2003, col. pl. 1 and as a line
drawing on p. 5, pl. 3.
Compare also the Song dynasty chrysanthemum-form cups in silver and gilt-silver illustrated in Chinesisches Gold und
Silber: die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1994, p. 233, nos. 278–279.
A silver chrysanthemum-form cup unearthed from a Yuan dynasty cache discovered in 1996 at Luopingxiang, Shimen
county is illustrated in Hunan chutu jinyinqi (Gold and Silver Excavated in Hunan), Changsha, 2009, p. 92, no. 61, and the
same cup is illustrated again in Hunan Song Yuan jiaocang jinyinqi faxian yu yanjiu (The Discovery and Research on Gold and
Silver Wares Unearthed from Caches of Song and Yuan Dynasties in Hunan), Beijing, 2009, p. 202, no. 401.
宋 鎏金菊花形銀盞 徑 8.6 厘米