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10 février 2018

A very rare turquoise-inlaid miniature gold vase, Han dynasty-Six Dynasties

A very rare turquoise-inlaid miniature gold vase, Han dynasty-Six Dynasties

Lot 38. A very rare turquoise-inlaid miniature gold vase, Han dynasty-Six Dynasties; 4cm., 1 1/2 in. Weight 10gEstimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 60,500 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's 2008

worked in the form of a hu-shaped vase, the body, neck and everted foot elaborately decorated with a finely applied pattern of volutes, lozenges and scrolls formed of gold wire edged with granulation, interspersed with teardrop-shaped cloisons for inlay with some retaining their original turquoise inlays, a short chain rising from a pair of loop handles set on the shoulders.

ExhibitedChinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1954-55, cat. no. 16.

Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 9, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

LiteratureBo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 16.

Zhang Linsheng, 'Zhongguo gudai di jingjin gongyi', The National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, no. 14, 1984, p. 54, fig. 9.

Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 15.

Note: The technique of granulation was shaped and adapted under the influence of the gold-working traditions of the nomads of the grasslands during the Han dynasty as a number of superbly made miniature ornaments in the form of stoves, animals or vases found in high-ranking tombs of the Han Dynasty demonstrate, see Yang Boda, 'Ancient Chinese Cultures of Gold Jewellery and Ornamentation', Arts of Asia, vol. 38, no. 2, March-April 2008, pp. 100-102; compare a pair of miniature vases attributed to the Eastern Han dynasty and similarly decorated with granulation and turquoise inlay, illustrated in Simon Kwan and Sun Ji, Chinese Gold Ornaments, Hong Kong, 2003, pl. 116.

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008

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