Lot Essay
Other cups of this shape with varying foliate scroll decoration are in private and public collections, including one illustrated by Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold & Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, no. 102; one illustrated in Ancient Chinese Arts in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1989, no. 320; one in the Collection of Senator Hugh Scott, illustrated in The Golden Age of Chinese Art, 1970, no. 18; and another in the collection of Ostasiatische Kunstabteilung, Berlin, included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Berlin, January 12-April 2, 1929, Catalogue no. 438
A cup of this form decorated with scrolling vines and grape leaves was unearthed from the reliquary chamber of the pagoda at the Qingshan Temple in Lindongxian, Shaanxi province. The construction of the temple was begun in 736, and in 740 the reliquary was placed in the subterranean chamber of the pagoda along with other objects of gold, silver, bronze and ceramic
A cup of this form decorated with scrolling vines and grape leaves was unearthed from the reliquary chamber of the pagoda at the Qingshan Temple in Lindongxian, Shaanxi province. The construction of the temple was begun in 736, and in 740 the reliquary was placed in the subterranean chamber of the pagoda along with other objects of gold, silver, bronze and ceramic