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
18.
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 9⁄16 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.
唐 纏枝紋銀杯一對 徑 4 厘米
