A SMALL CIRCULAR GOLD `TORTOISE` BOX AND COVER

Lot 918
21.09.2023 11:30UTC -05:00
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Lot 918 | A SMALL CIRCULAR GOLD 'TORTOISE' BOX AND COVER
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
A SMALL CIRCULAR GOLD 'TORTOISE' BOX AND COVER

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

1 1/8 in. ( 2.9 cm.) diam.; weight 16.3 g





Provenance

Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK41.

Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver; Sotheby's London, 14 May 2008, lot 80.



Literature

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. p. 20, no. 41.

Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, fig. 58g.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, p. 78, pl. 39.



Exhibited

Copenhagen, Dansk Kunstindustrimuseum, Kinas Kunst i Svensk og Dansk eje, 1950, cat. no. 173.

Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 41.
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