A SMALL FINELY ENGRAVED SILVER STEM CUP TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) The bell-shaped cup is raised on a knopped stem foot with spreading base. The deep sides are finely engraved with elaborate scrolling grapevine on a very fine ring-punched ground below a similar band at the mouth rim, all above a petal band and a saw-tooth band encircling the circular ring at the top of the stem. 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high; weight 36.4 g Provenance Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK102. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 47.
A SMALL FINELY ENGRAVED SILVER STEM CUP TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) The bell-shaped cup is raised on a knopped stem foot with spreading base. The deep sides are finely engraved with elaborate scrolling grapevine on a very fine ring-punched ground below a similar band at the mouth rim, all above a petal band and a saw-tooth band encircling the circular ring at the top of the stem. 2 in. (5.1 cm.) high; weight 36.4 g Provenance Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK102. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 47.
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