Lot Essay
Similar cups are in the Seattle Museum and the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Winthrop Collection (52.80B). Umehara published a similar cup in Rakujo Kinson shuei, pl.XLIV. Cf. also the Kempe Collection example with the characteristic achaemenid lobes on its side illustrated as no.76, Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Catalogue, no.76. Cf. also B.M.F.E.A. no.4, Pl.XVI, 1a and b
Compare also the lobed dish but without the griffon's head illustrated in Zhonguo Meishu Quanji, 1987, no.10, attributed to the Warring States Period, as well as the treatment of the ears on a gilt bronze chariot fitting of the Western Han period, illustrated in Eskanazi, Inlaid bronze and related material from pre-Tang China, 1991, p.68
Compare also the lobed dish but without the griffon's head illustrated in Zhonguo Meishu Quanji, 1987, no.10, attributed to the Warring States Period, as well as the treatment of the ears on a gilt bronze chariot fitting of the Western Han period, illustrated in Eskanazi, Inlaid bronze and related material from pre-Tang China, 1991, p.68