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
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A SILVER LONG-HANDLED TEA SCOOP (ZE)
Early Tang Dynasty, A.D. 7th century
the slender curving handle of half-round form with flattened back, tapering to a simplified duck’s head terminal at one end and flattened out to a lotus-petal-shaped very shallow curving scoop at the other end.
Length 9 3⁄4 inches (24.8 cm)
A plain silver tea scoop with long straight handle, excavated from the tomb of Li Jingxun, dated by epitaph to A.D. 608, is illustrated in Tang Chang’an chengjiao Sui Tang mu (Excavations of the Sui and Tang Tombs at Xi’an), Beijing, 1980, pl. 12, no. 4, with description on p. 19.
Compare also the silver spoon with shallow petal-shaped scoop, long curving handle and duck’s head terminal, decorated with engraved ducks and scrolling vines, excavated in 1983 near the Tang capital at Xi’an, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Han and Deydier in Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, p. 164, no. 399.
唐 銀茶匙 長 24.8 厘米
12.
A SILVER LONG-HANDLED TEA SCOOP (ZE)
Early Tang Dynasty, A.D. 7th century
Length 9 3⁄4 inches (24.8 cm)