Details
A SMALL SILVER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
TANG DYNASTY
The convex cover finely engraved in the center with a duck seated atop a lotus blossom borne on a scrolling, leafy stem encircled by an outer band of lotus pod and leaf meander, the base decorated with a leonine mythical beast frolicking amidst leafy tendrils repeated as an encircling border, with narrow bands of foliate scroll on the sides, all reserved on a ring-matted ground within linear borders--1 9/16in. (4cm.) diam.
TANG DYNASTY
The convex cover finely engraved in the center with a duck seated atop a lotus blossom borne on a scrolling, leafy stem encircled by an outer band of lotus pod and leaf meander, the base decorated with a leonine mythical beast frolicking amidst leafy tendrils repeated as an encircling border, with narrow bands of foliate scroll on the sides, all reserved on a ring-matted ground within linear borders--1 9/16in. (4cm.) diam.
Provenance
Desmond Gure Collection, no. 87
Exhibited
Venice, Mostra d'Arte Cinese, 1954, no. 271
London, Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, 1955, no. 340
London, Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, 1955, no. 340