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PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION
A SUPERB AND IMPORTANT PARCEL-GILT
SILVER ‘LOTUS AND POMEGRANATE’ BOWL
TANG DYNASTY
rendered in the shape of an open begonia flower, the widely
flaring sides divided into four lobes and rising to an everted
rim, all raised on a splayed foot of conforming shape, the
interior superbly engraved and gilt with a central medallion
enclosing an open flower issuing a small pomegranate and
flanked by fan-like leaves together with an elaborate stem
resembling a peacock tail, all reserved on a ring-punched
ground and framed within a lappet border, the interior rim
with a finely engraved and gilt band of further blooms on
a ring-punched ground, the exterior entirely chased with
a lush design of of single and double lotus flowers, some
fully in bloom, others transforming into seed pods, with
large fanning leaves, all reserved on a ring-punched ground,
above a band of overlapping lappets, the foot naturalistically
detailed as a furled lotus leaf, the exterior entirely gilt
Width 9½ in., 24.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Fritz Low-Beer & Co., New York, 8th February 1951.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
LITERATURE
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the
Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1957, no. 29,
pl. 20d and figs 42a, 85d and 96h.
Han Wei, ed., Hai nei wai Tangdai jinyinqi cuibian
[Compilation of Tang gold and silver vessels from inland and
overseas], Xi’an, 1989, fig. 141 (line drawing).

$ 1,000,000-1,500,000

唐 銀局部鎏金石榴蓮花紋花式大盌
來源
Fritz Low-Beer & Co.，紐約，1951年2月8日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

出版
喜龍仁，〈T’ang Gold and Silver〉，《Bulletin of
the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities》，斯德哥爾
摩，1957年，編號29，圖版20d及圖42a、85d及96h
韓偉編，《海內外唐代金銀器萃編》，西安，1989
年，圖141（線描圖）

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