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Lot 72

Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$3,000 - 5,000
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$3,200
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Lot Description

A Chinese Silver Begonia-Shaped Footed Dish, Tang Dynasty
唐 四曲海棠式高足銀碗
Tang Dynasty (618-907)

The lobed bowl with sloping walls above a short splayed foot.
Note:
For a similar silver example, see YANG, Zhishui. Shehua zhise, Song Yuan Ming Gold and Silver Wares, Volume 3. Beijing: Zhonghua Book Company, 2016, p 191, figure 3-19.

A gold example in the same form was excavated in Xi'an in 1983, see JI, Dongshan. An Appraisal of the National Treasures in the Shaanxi History Museum, The Gold and Silver Wares. Xi'an: Sanqin Publishing House, 2006, p 60, no. 25.

侈口、淺腹、圈足,杯體為四海棠形,這造型是對薩珊式銀器的模仿和改造。多曲長杯原本是典型的波斯薩珊式器物,口沿和器身呈變化的曲線,宛如開放的花朵,唐朝人對這種造型奇特的器物十分喜愛。但是,不同于中國器物光滑的內部,薩珊式多曲長杯內部有突出的棱線,使用功能不符合中國人的習慣。優美的形態和使用上的缺陷成為實用與觀賞之間的矛盾。為此,唐代工匠加高器足和器身,淡化內壁突起的線,經過不斷的改進和調整,中晚唐時期的多曲長杯,表現出了全然不同於薩珊式長杯的面貌,並最終成為唐代的創新作品。

參見陝西歷史博物館藏1983年陝西省西安市太乙路出土唐代摩羯紋海棠形金杯;以及河南省伊川鴉嶺唐代齊國太夫人墓出土雙魚紋金盞銀盤。收錄于揚之水著《奢華之色 宋元明金銀器研究卷三》,p 191, 圖3-19;冀東方主編《神韻與輝煌:陝西曆史博物館國寶鑒賞金銀器卷》,p 60,編號25。
Length 6 in., 15.2 cm.

Property from the RenLu Collection.

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