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Lot 109
Sale 6418 - Asian Works of Art
Sep 19, 2025
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Live / New York
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$2,000 -
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$4,160
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Lot Description
Two Chinese Silver 'Goose' Tea Spoons, Ze, Tang Dynasty
唐 雁首柄銀茶則兩件
唐 雁首柄銀茶則兩件
Tang Dynasty (618-907)
Each has a curved handle ending in a goose-head terminal.
Compare a closely related silver spoon with a similar handle terminating in a goose head, also dated to the Tang dynasty, excavated in 1983 near Xian, Shaanxi province, illustrated by Han Wei and Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, pages 164-165, no. 399.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 December 2021, lot 5008.
烹茶時投放茶末的工具，參見陝西省寶雞市扶風縣法門寺地宮出土唐代鎏金飛鴻銀則；中國茶葉博物館藏唐代鏨花魚尾銅茶則；紐約大都會博物館藏唐代銀雁首匙（館藏編號22.79.2）。
Length of Larger: 10 1/4 in., 26 cm; Length of Shorter: 7 1/2 in., 19.1 cm.
Property from the RenLu Collection.
This lot is located in New York.