A SILVER 'LOTUS PETAL' STEM CUP
A SILVER 'LOTUS PETAL' STEM CUP
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A SILVER 'LOTUS PETAL' STEM CUP

TANG-SONG DYNASTY, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

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A SILVER 'LOTUS PETAL' STEM CUP
TANG-SONG DYNASTY, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
2 5/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high; weight 74.7 g
Provenance
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden.
Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver; Sotheby's London, 14 May 2008, lot 55.
Literature
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, p. 147, pl. 106.

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Lot Essay


Tang and Song silver vessels decorated around the sides in repoussé with overlapping petals appear to be rare. Two rows of overlapping repoussé lotus petals can be seen on the sides of a pair of parcel-gilt silver bowls, each raised on a lotus leaf-shaped pedestal foot, of Tang-dynasty date, excavated in 1987 from the Famen Monastery Pagoda, Fufeng county, Shaanxi province, and illustrated by Han Wei and Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, p. 350, pl. 669. The sides of a silver bowl in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr., illustrated by Dr. Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, China House Gallery, New York, 1971-1972, where it is dated Song dynasty, are worked in repoussé with overlapping chrysanthemum petals. Remains of solder on the bottom suggest the Falk bowl once had a stem foot.

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