细节
A PAIR OF GOLD FILIGREE HAIRPINS
10TH-13TH CENTURY OR LATER
The ornate head of each double-pronged hairpin is comprised of a very fine sheet of delicate latticework decorated with a small bird with a leafy spray in its beak below a scrolling meander, all outlined in fine twisted wire and enclosed within a geometric border.
Each 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long; weight 35.8 and 34.3 g
来源
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK45.
Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 91.
出版
Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, cat. no. 45.
Bo Gyllensvärd, ‘T’ang Gold and Silver’, Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, No. 29, Stockholm, 1957, figs. 13h, 53a, 77b.
Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 1999, pl. 44.
展览
Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, 1954-55, cat. no. 45.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, 1971, cat. no. 20, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.