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4 in. (10.2 cm.) wide; weight 50 g
Dr. Johan Carl Kempe (1884-1967) Collection, Sweden, before 1953, no. CK136. Sotheby's London, Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork. Early Gold and Silver, 14 May 2008, lot 107.
Silver and gold vessels, often made for use at the imperial court, were often the inspiration for ceramic interpretations, such as the white stoneware cup from the Ingram Collection illustrated by Michael Vickers et al., From Silver to Ceramic, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1986, pl. 35, where it is illustrated with the present silver cup. A gold cup of similar shape, dated Song dynasty, also chased in the center of the interior with a flower stem, and with foliate scroll on the flange handle, in the collection of the Hon. Senator Hugh Scott, is illustrated by Dr. Paul Singer, Early Chinese Gold & Silver, China Institute in America, New York, 1971-1972, p. 68, no. 98. See, also, the white stoneware cup of similar shape dated to the Jin dynasty, 12th-13th century, in the Kai-yin Lo Collection, illustrated in Bright as Silver - White as Snow, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 18, where it is suggested that flanged cups of this type would have served as brush washers.
