TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details

A SMALL FINELY-ENGRAVED GILT-BRONZE STEM CUP
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The deep sides of the cup are engraved in meticulous detail with equestrian huntsmen in pursuit of game in a landscape with flowers against a ring-punched ground above the knopped spreading foot and with a band of scrolling foliage below the rim.
2 in. (5 cm.) high

Provenance

The Collection of Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967).
Sotheby's London, 5 November 2008, lot 414.
Property from a Princely Collection.

Special notice

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Sale room notice

Please note that this lot is published in B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, fig. 109.
此拍品載於1953年斯特哥爾摩出版，B. Gyllensvärd著《Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection》，圖109

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Lot Essay

The form and design of this stem cup may be compared to a slightly smaller Tang dynasty silver stem cup (9.8 cm. high) illustrated by Carol Michaelson in Gilded Dragons, London, 1999, p 22. fig. 4., similarly decorated with equestrian huntsmen chasing game against a ring punched ground and below a scrolling floral band. The current lot may also be compared to a stem cup sold at Christie's London, 14 July 1980, lot 298.

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