J.J. Lally & Co., Oriental Art / New York City, New York

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Past Exhibition

Silver and Gold in Ancient China

March 16 – April 14, 2012

A PAIR OF SMALL CHASED SILVER CUPS
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A PAIR OF SMALL CHASED SILVER CUPS

Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)

each wine cup of circular form resting on a narrow ring foot finely decorated on the exterior with incised exotic vine scroll sprouting trefoil leaves, small flowers and bunches of stylized fruit on a ring-punched ground, the steeply rounded bombé sides curving in below the flared rim and rounded at the base, the interior plain.

Diameter 1 916 inches (4 cm)

A silver wine cup of this form similarly chased with a dense pattern of flowering vine scroll, formerly in the collection of C.T. Loo, is illustrated by Beurdeley in The Chinese Collector Through the Centuries: From the Han to the 20th Century, Fribourg, 1966, p. 225, Cat. 34.

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18.
A PAIR OF SMALL CHASED SILVER CUPS

Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907)

Diameter 1 916 inches (4 cm)

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