A small engraved gilt-bronze 'hunting' stem cup, Tang dynasty

Oriental Bronzes Ltd., London.

Galerie Christian Deydier, Paris.

Opening Exhibition, Christian Deydier, Oriental Bronzes Ltd., London, 1987, cat. no. 10.

Caravanes sur la Route de la Soie [Caravans on the Silk Road], Christian Deydier, Oriental Bronzes Ltd, Paris, 1999, cat. no. 21.

L'or Des Steppes, Arts somptuaires de la dynastie Liao (907-1125) [The Gold of the Steppes: Sumptuary Arts of the Liao Dynasty (907-1125)], Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts d'Extrême-Orient, Geneva, 2007, fig. ill. 7.

A closely related example was sold at Christie's London, 14th July 1980, lot 298; another slightly smaller example, from the Kempe Collection, illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, fig. 109, first sold in our London rooms, 5th November 2008, lot 414, again at Christie's London, 14th May 2019, lot 77; a third example but decorated with a band of stylized clouds on the rim, from the Avery Brundage Collection, was exhibited in Unearthing China's Past, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1973, cat. no. 93.