J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Chinese Porcelain and Silver in the Song Dynasty
March 18 - April 8, 2002
34.
A SMALL GOLD FLOWER-FORM BOWL
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
in the form of a large chrysanthemum flower with perfectly symmetrical slender petals, each concave on the interior and convex on the exterior, lined up to form the slightly flaring sides, the rounded petal-tips forming a scallop-edged lip rim, and the center of the bowl raised into a dome decorated with small rounded bosses arranged in concentric bands on ring-punched grounds, imitating the center of a chrysanthemum flower, with inset base and raised on a high flaring ring foot.
Diameter 3 3⁄8 inches (8.5 cm)
A Song silver bowl of chrysanthemum form with two tiers of petals, from the Collection of Otto Burchard is illustrated in the 1929 Berlin exhibition catalogue entitled Chinesische Kunst, no. 403, and is illustrated again by Singer in the catalogue of the 1971-1972 China Institute in America exhibition entitled Early Chinese Gold and Silver, no. 97, from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr.
