WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne
WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne
WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne
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26 ROGER KEVERNE <strong>WINTER</strong> <strong>2008</strong><br />
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A rare parcel-gilt silver tray<br />
Liao or Jin dynasty<br />
Length: 6N in, 17.2 cm<br />
of quatrefoil form with low, flaring sides and an everted flange rim. The dish is decorated<br />
with a design of two phoenixes amid leafy, flowering aster. The birds have delicately chased<br />
feathers and long ribbon tails. The flange rim is decorated with a classic scroll chased in dotted<br />
lines. The decoration bears the remains of a gilt wash.<br />
Exhibited: Eskenazi, Early Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, London, 1974, no. 22.<br />
Formerly in the Sackler collection, no. 66, and in a Western private collection.<br />
A silver tray of this shape, found in a hoard of silver vessels, circa 1100, near Bairin Youqi,<br />
Inner Mongolia, is illustrated in Wenwu, 1980, no. 5, p. 58. For a cup decorated with a<br />
similar chased dotted-line scroll on the handle, see Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold & Silver in<br />
the Carl Kempe Collection, no. 136, pp. 208–09.
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