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A FINE SILVER STEMCUP
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
of goblet form, the deeply rounded bowl rising from a splayed hollow pedestal base with a knopped stem, the sides finely chased with an undulating vine issuing curling leaves and tendrils and laden with fruit, encircling the body against a finely executed ring-punched ground, the base similarly decorated with four single scrolls on a ring-punched ground
Exhibited
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 103.
Literature
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 103.
Bo Gyllensvärd, 'T'ang Gold and Silver', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 29, 1957, fig. 25e.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cuibian [Tang Gold and Silver in Chinese and overseas collections], Xi'an, 1989, pl. 44.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 105.