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A rare silver flower-shaped cranes dish, Southern song Dynasty…
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Sydney
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12-Dec-2016
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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. Reference: 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. 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 Hunan), Changsha, 2009, 2009, pp. 97-106, two inscriptions illustrated pp. 98-99. Provenance: Capital Gallery, Hong Kong, 2010
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