Lot #132 - A Rare Silver Flower-Shaped Cranes Dish, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279)
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Auction House:Mossgreen
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Sale Name:Fine Chinese Works of Art & Ceramics (Part II)
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Sale Date:12 Dec 2016 ~ 6.30pm
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Lot #:132
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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
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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.
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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
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Estimate:A$10,000 - 15,000
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Realised Price:
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Category:Oriental
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