ID 1016813
Lot 920 | A SMALL FINELY ENGRAVED SILVER STEM CUP
Estimate value
$ 25 000 – 35 000
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high; weight 36.4 g
Provenance
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK102.
Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver; Sotheby's London, 14 May 2008, lot 47.
Literature
B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. p. 32, no. 102.
B. Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, No. 29, 1957, figs. 55a, 75c, 86b, 87f.
Han Wei, Hai nei wai Tangdai jin yin qi cui bian, (Tang Gold and Silver in Chinese and overseas collections), Xi’an, 1989, pl. 44.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, p. 145, pl. 104.
Exhibited
Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55.
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Historical era: | Tang dynasty |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Applied technique: | Metalwork |
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| Medium: | Silver |
| Historical era: | Tang dynasty |
| Category: | Cups |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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