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

The chased decoration on this dish is closely related to the well-known group of late Tang silver bowls decorated with parcel-gilt borderless panels of finely drawn exotic blooms and feathery foliage which have been widely published in museum catalogues and scholarly journals. Compare, for example, the chased decoration in this style and technique on the bowl and cover from the Kempe Collection which was included in the exhibition that travelled to ten museums in the United States, illustrated in the catalogue by Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain: The Kempe Collection, New York, 1971, p. 54, no. 56. Two other parcel-gilt late Tang silver bowls decorated in the same style and technique are illustrated in the catalogue published by the Museum Rietberg, Chinesisches Gold und Silber: die Sammlung Pierre Uldry, Zurich, 1994, pp. 160-161, nos. 147-148.