現場拍賣 2297Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections
A PAIR OF GOLD EARRINGS
拍品 1297

A PAIR OF GOLD EARRINGS

MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

已結束2010年3月26日

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A PAIR OF GOLD EARRINGS
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
Each made from a thin piece of sheet gold partially chased with a design of a boy flanked by melons seated on a stippled ground between flowers, the chased section wrapped around to form the bottom of the earring and the remainder of the sheet crimped and rolled to form the slender arched hook
1½ in. (3.8 cm.) long
Wt. 2.9 and 2.9 g. (2)

Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s.

專家說明

Another similarly constructed gold earring of Ming date also chased with a boy, but surrounded by flowers rather than melons, is illustrated by Julia M. White and Emma C. Bunker, Adornment for Eternity: Status and Rank in Chinese Ornament, Denver Art Museum, 1994, p. 195, no. 108.
A Technical Examination Report is available upon request.