ID 807573
Lot 832 | A SMALL CIRCULAR GOLD 'TORTOISE' BOX AND COVER
Estimate value
$ 12 000 – 18 000
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
One side of the circular box is delicately chased with a circular medallion of a tortoise with raised head walking amidst peony scroll. The other side is decorated with a circular medallion of a flower surrounded by scrolling, leafy sprays, and the upright sides with foliate scroll, all reserved on a fine ring-punched ground.
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.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 80.
Literature
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. 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, 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.
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Historical era: | Tang dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
| Medium: | Gold |
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| Historical era: | Tang dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects, Boxes and Cases |
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