A fine and rare gilt-bronze engraved wine cup Tang dynasty | 唐鎏金銅鏨花高足盃

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June 16, 02:39 PM GMT

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15,000 - 20,000 EUR

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Property from an important European private collection

A fine and rare gilt-bronze engraved wine cup

Tang dynasty

of small size, the bowl with horizontal groove just below the slightly everted lip, finely engraved in three zones with birds in flight and perched amidst scrolling, flowering plants, above a short 'canopy' engraved with dentate ornament, supported on a spherical-knopped stem and conical foot, the latter engraved with floral meander on a granulated ground matching the body

7.3 cm, 2 7/8 in.

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Propriété d'une importante collection européenne

Rare coupe à vin en bronze doré à décor gravé, dynastie Tang

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歐洲重要私人收藏

唐鎏金銅鏨花高足盃

Collection of Joseph Homberg

Sotheby’s, London, 19th July 1949, lot 85.

Sotheby’s, London, 11th May 1965, lot 83 (1,350 GBP).

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Joseph Homberg珍藏

倫敦蘇富比，1949年7月19日，編號85

倫敦蘇富比，1965年5月11日，編號83 (1,350 英镑)

This example resembles the cup in the Carl Kempe Collection, decorated with horsemen and hunting scenes, illustrated by Bo Gyllensvard, Chinese Gold and Silver, pl. 109a; and another also in gilt bronze, illustrated by Percival Yetts, Catalogue of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, pl. 70 fig. B 314. For silver examples see Gyllensvard, B.M.F.E.A., no. 29, pl. 8d; Jenys and Watson, Chinese Art (1963), pl. 20, an example in the Desmond Gure Collection; and the Catalogue of the Berlin Exhibition, 1929, no. 438.

A fine and rare gilt-bronze engraved wine cup Tang dynasty | 唐 鎏金銅鏨花高足盃

A fine and rare gilt-bronze engraved wine cup Tang dynasty | 唐鎏金銅鏨花高足盃