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A Dege wrought iron circular covered box with silver inlay,…
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Sydney
Date:
15-Nov-2018
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A Dege wrought iron circular covered box with silver inlay, Qianlong six-character seal mark to the base, Qing dynasty, 9.9 cm high. Provenance: Andrew Stuart-Robertson, London, 1970s to 1990s. Christie's, London, prior to 1995. Apsara Asian Art, Sydney. Mossgreen, Melbourne, 2 June 2010, lot 1105. This type of metalwork was produced in very high quality and vast number in Tibet as early as the 14th and 15th century. The unique technology has been known as 'damascening' to Europeans, but called 'Dege' in China, the name of the town through which the metal work was brought to China-proper. Different from the common inlaid-works, Dege works have their surface of wrought iron abraded and then gold and/or silver applied in highly decorative patterns. So favoured were they that the Qianlong emperor specially commissioned a group of Tibetans to produce vessels and objects for daily use, such as brush pots and plates, in addition to those used for traditional ceremonial and religious purposes
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