Live Auction 2297Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
A PAIR OF GOLD FLAT 'CASH'-FORM APPLIQUES
Lot 1296

A PAIR OF GOLD FLAT 'CASH'-FORM APPLIQUES

SONG/MING DYNASTY (10TH-17TH CENTURY)

Closed26 March 2010

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A PAIR OF GOLD FLAT 'CASH'-FORM APPLIQUES
SONG/MING DYNASTY (10TH-17TH CENTURY)
Each of beaten gold sheet with a square aperture in the center, one side chased and divided into four quadrants by bands of cloud scroll alternately enclosing cranes and clouds reserved on a fine punched ground, with further cloud scroll in the outer border
2 7/16 in. (6.2 cm.) diam., box
Wt. 18.7 and 17.4 g. (2)

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

Specialist note

Two gold discs of this type chased with characters within the quadrants, dated to the Song dynasty, are illustrated in Chinesisches Gold und Silber: Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Reitberg Museum, Zürich, 1994, p. 226, nos. 264 and 265.

A Technical Examination Report is available upon request.