A SMALL CAST GOLD ORNAMENT
A SMALL CAST GOLD ORNAMENT

NORTHERN CHINA, 3RD CENTURY BC

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A SMALL CAST GOLD ORNAMENT
NORTHERN CHINA, 3RD CENTURY BC
The outline of the lobed, rosette-like ornament is formed by six raptor heads with raised eyes and long inward-pointing beaks. A squared loop is on the concave reverse.
1 in. (2.6 cm.) diam.; weight 22.9 g
来源
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK29.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 11.
出版
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 29.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 27.
展览
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 29.

荣誉呈献

高麗娜 (Olivia Hamilton)
高麗娜 (Olivia Hamilton)

拍品专文

A slightly smaller (2 cm. diam.) button of this design is illustrated by Simon Kwan and Sun Ji, Chinese Gold Ornaments, Hong Kong, 2003, pp. 162-63, pl. 24.

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