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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Fine Chinese Works of Art & Ceramics (Part II)
• Sale Date:
  12 Dec 2016 ~ 6.30pm
• Lot #:
  132
• Lot Description:
  A Rare Silver Flower-Shaped Cranes Dish, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
  the eight-lobed dish finely incised in the centre within an octagonal cartouche, with a pair of cranes flying above a lotus pond, the everted lipped rim with a continuous classic scroll, in "dotted line" technique, with a four-character inscription reading "san lang..." (partly illegible)
  14 cm diameter
• Provenance:
  Capital Gallery, HK, 2010
• References:
  J.J. Lally & Co SILVER AND GOLD IN ANCIENT CHINA, March 16-April 14, 2012, cat. no. 23 for a dish of identical form and in the same style but with songbirds and foliage, the same mark on the rim. The two dishes are almost certainly from the same workshop.
• Notes:
  The same inscription may be seen on a set of ten dishes excavated in 1996, illustrated in Human chutu jingingqi (Gold and Silver Excavated in Human), Changsha, 2009, 2009, pp. 97-106, two inscriptions illustrated pp. 98-99
• Estimate:
  A$10,000 - 15,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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