TWO GILT-BRONZE CUPS

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details

TWO GILT-BRONZE CUPS
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
One is a stem cup engraved with a wide band of leafy scroll reserved on a ring-punched ground between narrow bands of similar decoration above and below, and repeated on the spreading foot. The other cup has waisted sides similarly engraved with leafy scroll between similar narrow borders, all with the addition of birds. A related design is on the base.
Both 2 ¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high

Provenance

The Erwin Harris Collection, Miami, Florida, by 1991.

Lot Essay

The second cup is similar in shape and decoration to a silver cup, on which the decoration is repoussé rather than engraved, in the Frederick M. Mayer Collection, sold at Christie's London, 24-25 June 1974, lot 153, and also included in the exhibition, The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1957, no. 344.

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