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Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, Londres, 13 mai 2015
9 janvier 2018
A parcel-gilt silver shell-form box and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907)
Lot 16. A parcel-gilt silver shell-form box and cover, Tang dynasty (618-907); 4.2cm., 1 5/8 in. Estimate 5,000 — 7,000 GBP. Lot sold 21,250 GBP (29,620 EUR). Photo Sotheby's.
modelled in the form of a shell, the exterior engraved with birds in flight amongst scattered floral sprays and mountains, all reserved on a ring-punched ground, the hinged cover similarly decorated, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 3.
Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
Exhibited: Chūgoku bijutsu ten series: Sui Tō no bijutsu [Chinese art exhibition series: The art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties], Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, 1976, cat. no. 222.
Tokubetsu tenji gō. Higashi Asia no futamono [Special exhibition box and cover. Eastern Asian box and cover], Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Osaka, 1984, cat. no. 14.
Literature: Ryūsen Shūhō. Sōgyō shichijū shūnen kinen/Mayuyama: Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 2, pl. 81.
Note: Silver boxes in the form of clam shells were an innovation of the Tang dynasty and were used to hold cosmetic powder. Two boxes of this form, decorated with geese over a punched ground were excavated near Xi’an in Shaanxi province, illustrated in Han Wei and Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, pls 359-363; one with birds in flight among a leafy scroll, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, was included in the exhibition Chinese Gold & Silver in American Collections, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, 1984, cat. no. 40; another is illustrated in Chinese Art from the Collection of H.M. King Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden, Tokyo, 1971, pl. 37; and a further box was sold in these rooms, 24th March 1955, lot 55.
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