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1 3/8, ?, 1 ? and 1 ? in. (3.3, 1.9, 3.8 and 3.8 cm.) wide; first with wood base with magnifier, others framed
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK20. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 39.
These small gold ornaments represent how varied personal ornamentation was in China in ancient times, whether made to ornament clothing or the hair.The first ornament is similar to one excavated in 1979 from the tomb of Zhang Zhen, Suzhou, Jiangsu province, and now in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated by James C. Y. Watt et al., China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 AD, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, p. 28, no. 10, where it is dated Eastern Jin dynasty (AD 317-420) or earlier. A mirror-image pair, dated 1st century BC-1st century AD is illustrated by Catherine Delacour, De bronze, d'or et d'argent: Arts somptuaires de la Chine, Musée Guimet, 2001, p. 247. These are described as having been flattened on a thin lacquer ground that may have been applied to bronze. Another similar ornament is illustrated in Die Sammlung Pierre Uldry: Chinesisches Gold und Silber, Zurich, 1994, p. 138, no. 115. Also illustrated are two other ornaments similar to the third and fourth described ornaments, p. 139, pls. 116 and 117 (top).
