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Lot 108
A Pair of Chinese Gold 'Figural and Fruits' Plaque Earrings, Paihuan, Qing Dynasty
清 童子瓜果紋金牌環一對
清 童子瓜果紋金牌環一對
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Mar 21, 2025
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$4,000 -
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$3,200
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Lot Description
A Pair of Chinese Gold 'Figural and Fruits' Plaque Earrings, Paihuan, Qing Dynasty
清 童子瓜果紋金牌環一對
清 童子瓜果紋金牌環一對
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Each earring is adorned with a finely cut and chased rectangular plaque featuring two playful boys to the flattened hoop narrowing to a wire pin for threading through the earlobe, suspending a second rectangular plaque decorated with a basket with fruits. The interior of the hook is stamped with a maker's mark, x chang pure gold.
Note:
For similar examples, see LIN, Yeqiang. Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang Collection II. Hongkong: The Chinese University of Hongkong, 2007, p 606-607.
For discussions on plaque earrings, paihuan, see YANG, Zhishui. Shehua Zhise, Song Yuan Ming Jinyinqi Yanjiu, volume 1. Beijing: Zhonghua Shuju, 2014, p 140-148; and LI, Ya. Erpan Liuguang, Zhongguo Lidai Erhuan. Beijing: Zhongguo Fangzhipin Chubanshe, 2015, p 140-141.
環内鏨有款識: 大▯昌足赤金。
牌环之称见于故宫本《碎金·服饰篇》"首饰”一节,係元代出现的一种状如长方形牌的耳饰,金银为多,少量金镶玉,质地轻薄,以打造之功在做出鸟兽花果纹样,多从两宋绘画的写生小品中取意,精巧别致。參見湖南省醴陵市新合元代窖藏出土的金靈芝瑞兔紋牌環;江西省德安市出土的銀鎏金牡丹山石孔雀紋牌環;湖南省常德市桃園文物管理處藏金牡丹山石孔雀圖牌環;湖南省益陽縣八字哨鄉関王村元代窖藏出土的銀牡丹山石孔雀圖牌環,收錄于揚之水著《奢華之色——宋元明金銀器研究卷一》,中華書局2010年出版,第140-148頁;以及李芽著《耳畔流光:中國歷代耳飾》,中國紡織出版社2015年出版,第140-141頁。
私人收藏類似耳環,見林業強主編《寶蘊迎祥:承訓堂藏金》收錄的兩對,2007年香港中文大學中國文化研究所文物館,第606-607頁。
Height 2 in., 5.1 cm.
Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.
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