Lot 32
  • 32

A SMALL SILVER CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER TANG DYNASTY

Estimate
8,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • silver
engraved on one side with a pair of hoopoe birds and on the reverse with a pair of antelope, enclosed by sprigs and scrolls on a punched ground, detached scrolls on the sides (2)

Provenance

Walter Stein Collection.
Dr. Ip Yee Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 6th November 1981, lot 23

Literature

Bo Gyllensvard, Tang Gold and Silver, Bulletin No. 29, Stockholm: The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 1957, figs. 67a and 93 (i) and pl. 13 (c) (image enhanced).

Condition

The box is in overall good condition.
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