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A SUPERB SILVER STEM CUP
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The cup is divided into ten petal-shaped lobes, each delicately engraved with birds including ducks, geese and a parrot amidst rocks and trees in a landscape, all set against a very fine ring-punched ground above engraved lotus petals rising from the stem foot with a spreading, petal-lobed base similarly decorated with bands of foliate scrolls.
2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) diam., zitan fitted box
Provenance
Suematsu Boeki Ltd., Toyko, 1992.
Special notice
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