A RARE SMALL PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUP
A RARE SMALL PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUP

TANG DYNASTY (618-907)

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A RARE SMALL PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUP
TANG DYNASTY (618-907)
Finely incised around the midsection with a continuous band of scrolling grape vine picked out in gilding and reserved on a ring-punched ground, repeated beneath the flared rim, with a single loop handle applied with two rivets, the whole raised on a short foot encircling a single flower head on the convex base
2¼ in. (5.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Isabel Mayer Oriental Antiques, late 1950s.

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A smaller (4.5 cm.) Tang dynasty silver cup of closely related form, incised with a different style of floral scroll, from the Kempe Collection, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 14 May 2008, lot 43.

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