Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art from the Collection of Bruce Dayton and Ruth Stricker Dayton
A rare gold openwork 'lotus' hairpin, Song dynasty | 宋 金鏤空蓮花釵
Auction Closed
September 22, 04:06 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A rare gold openwork 'lotus' hairpin
Song dynasty
宋 金鏤空蓮花釵
the finial cast as a blossoming lotus flower just before full bloom, the three layers of petals overlapping and with the tips of the innermost petals curving toward the center, each petal rendered with an openwork design, the center of the flower hollow, the post wrapped in a sheet of gold foil worked in repoussé with a stippled pattern imitating the texture of a lotus stem, Lucite stand (2)
Length 5⅜ in., 13.6 cm
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 20th August 1999.
來源
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1999年8月20日
For a Song dynasty gold floriform hairpin finial, of similar style though cast solid rather than in openwork, see one excavated in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province illustrated in Zhenjiang chutu jin yin qi [Gold and Silver wares unearthed in Zhenjiang], Beijing, 2012, pl. 109. See also a Song dynasty gold repoussé headband, worked and patterned similarly to the sheet wrapping the post of the present hairpin, also excavated in Zhenjiang and published in ibid., pl. 122. For Song dynasty gold jewelry produced with openwork floral designs, see a pair of hairpins and a necklace published in Pierre Uldry, Chinesisches Gold Und Silber, Zurich, 1994, pls 289 and 290.