J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York
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Silver and Gold in Ancient China
March 16 – April 14, 2012
38.
A CHASED GOLD CUP
Song Dynasty (A.D. 960-1279)
decorated with a finely drawn leafy spray bearing a single lotus bud and two stylized lotus flowers in full bloom chased on the interior of the rounded base of the cup, and with a single fruit centering a symmetrical arrangement of leaves chased on the flat flange of lobed crescent shape projecting over a plain loop handle set perpendicular to the side, the exterior rim of the cup with a narrow half-round lip which continues along the upper edge of the flange, the sides left plain and softly burnished.
Width over handle 4 3⁄8 inches (11.2 cm)
From the Ton-Ying Collection, Zhang Renjie (1877-1950)
From the Collection of Mrs. Christian R. Holmes (1871-1940)
From the Collection of Senator Hugh Scott (1900-1994)
Exhibited
Allentown, PA, Allentown Art Museum, 1968
Fredericksburg, VA, Mary Washington College Art Gallery, 1968
Philadelphia, PA, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1969
Richmond, VA, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1969
Pittsburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery, 1969
Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1970
New York, China Institute in America, 1971
Published
Scott, The Golden Age of Chinese Art, Tokyo, 1960, p. 49, no. 12
Kinsman, Chinese Art from the Collection of the Hon. Hugh Scott, Fredericksburg, VA, 1968, no. 17a-b
Wang and Wiant, Chinese Art from the Collections of the Hon. Hugh Scott, Pittsburgh, 1970, no. 20-12
Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, China Institute in America, New York, 1971, p. 68, no. 98
Three chased gold cups of this distinctive form but less refined in design and not as finely chased, unearthed or collected from Wulanchabu City and Xilinguole League, Inner Mongolia are illustrated in Genghis Khan – The Ancient Nomadic Culture of Northern China, Beijing, 2004, pp. 270-271, described as Jin/Mongol (A.D. 1206 – 1271).
A Song dynasty silver bowl of very similar form, chased in a rough dotted-line style with a single lotus bloom on the interior and with palmette scroll on the flange handle, is illustrated by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 136.
宋 花卉紋單耳金洗 寬含把手 11.2 厘米