Lot 81
81
A GILT-BRONZE STEM-CUP, the rounded body finely incised depicting a hunting scene with three mounted archers pursuing deer and hares amongst flowers and shrubs below ducks in flight and wispy clouds framed by borders containing arched floral meanders, the knopped stem-foot with further foliate motifs, all reserved on a punched-ring ground (losses to gilt, crack to base of foot),

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A GILT-BRONZE STEM-CUP, the rounded body finely incised depicting a hunting scene with three mounted archers pursuing deer and hares amongst flowers and shrubs below ducks in flight and wispy clouds framed by borders containing arched floral meanders, the knopped stem-foot with further foliate motifs, all reserved on a punched-ring ground (losses to gilt, crack to base of foot),

Tang Dynasty
6cm. high, box

Lot Essay

Compare with several published gilt-bronze examples: one in the British Museum from the Eumorfopoulos Collection, 1936, 11-18 30; another in Tangdai Jinyinqi, Gold and Silver Wares in the Tang Dynasty, pl.56. Silver examples are illustrated in B.M.F.E.A., Stockholm, 1957, no.29; B. Gyllensvard, T'ang Gold and Silver, pl.17A; and in the Avery Brundage Collection, Catalogue, pl.LIXA.
A similar gilt-bronze stem-cup from the Huth Walters Collection was sold in these Rooms, 14 July 1980, lot 298

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