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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER COSMETIC BOX AND COVER, TANG DYNASTY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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China, 618-907. The hinged box is realistically formed as a clam shell, with a pair of geese finely engraved to both sides, each pair flying amidst flowering, leafy stems within a plain outer border. The hinge mounts in form of teardrops. All the decoration is highlighted in gilding and reserved on the fine ring-matte ground.Provenance: From a Swedish private collection. Condition: Good condition with old wear, expected tarnish and few small areas of oxidization, the interior with sparse small spots of malachite encrustation. Light scratches, minor rubbing to the gilt, and few minuscule nicks. The hinge renewed.Weight: 98.6 g Dimensions: Length 6.4 cmSilver boxes in the form of clam shells were an innovation of the Tang dynasty and were used to hold cosmetic powder.Literature comparison:Similar parcel-gilt silver boxes of clam shape have been published, several of which include pairs of birds in the decoration. One from Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated in National Treasure Collection of Rare Cultural Relics of Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi, 1998, pp. 100-1, is decorated with a pair of ducks on one half and a pair of geese with entwined necks on the other half. This same box, along with another of miniature size, also from Xi'an, decorated with a pair of ducks holding a knotted cord between them in their beaks, is illustrated by Han Wei and Christian Deydier, Ancient Chinese Gold, Paris, 2001, p. 147, pls. 359-63. Two others decorated with a pair of ducks include one illustrated in Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes and Early Ceramics, Eskenazi, London, June - July 1973, no. 27; and one (3.2 cm.) illustrated by Hugh Scott, The Golden Age of Chinese Art, Vermont/Tokyo, 1966, pl. 11 (bottom), and later illustrated again in Chinesisches Gold und Silber: The Pierre Uldry Collection, Zurich, 1994, p. 168, no. 161. Compare also a closely related smaller parcel-gilt shell-shaped silver box, dated to the Tang dynasty, 3.7 cm wide, exhibited by Eskenazi, Tang: Ceramics, Metalwork and Sculpture, London, 21 October-6 November 2021.Auction result comparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 20 September 2013, lot 1465Price: USD 27,500 or approx. EUR 32,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A rare miniature parcel-gilt silver shell-form box and cover, Tang dynasty (ad 618-907)Expert remark: Compare the closely related form, decoration, and motifs. Note the much smaller size (3.5 cm).

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