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• Auction House:
  Bonhams Australia
• Sale Name:
  The Yeung Collection II including Works from Various Vendors
• Sale Date:
  24 Jun 2020 ~ 6pm (AEST)
• Lot #:
  52
• Lot Description:
  An Octafoil Silver "Twin Birds" Dish
  Southern Song dynasty
  14.0cm diam.,
• Provenance:
  R and V Tregaskis Oriental Art, Sydney (no. 2962)
• Notes:
  Compare an almost identical dish with the same inscription, see J. J. Lally & Co., Silver and Gold in Ancient China, 16 March to 14 April, 2012, Lot 23. According to the catalogue, the stamped inscription includes two characters which may be read as san lang [??]. The same inscription appears on a set of ten silver dishes excavated in 1996 from a hoard containing late Sing to early Yuan objects, illustrated in Hunan chutu jinyinqi (Gold and Silver Excavated in Hunan), Changsha, 2009, pp. 97–106, with detail images of two of the inscriptions on pp. 98 and 99.
• Estimate:
  A$8,000 - 12,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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