A RARE SILVER PEACH-FORM CUP

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ID 807320
Lot 836 | A RARE SILVER PEACH-FORM CUP
A RARE SILVER PEACH-FORM CUP

SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

The cup is shaped as a half-peach borne on a leafy branch that forms the handle. The sides are finely engraved with blossoming and fruiting branches that continue under the base, all against a fine ring-matted ground.

3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm.) wide; weight 70.3 g





Provenance

Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK152.

Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 115.



Literature

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 152.

Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘A Botanical Excursion in the Kempe Collection', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 37, Stockholm, 1965, pl. 16b.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 153.



Exhibited

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 152.

London, Arts Council Gallery, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1958, cat. no. 283.

New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 68, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

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