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Lot 95
A Pair of Chinese Gold 'Brocade Balls' Earrings, Erhuan, Yuan-Ming Dynasty
明 金繡球耳環一對
明 金繡球耳環一對
Sale 2046 - Asian Works of Art
Mar 21, 2025
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$6,000 -
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$5,120
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Lot Description
A Pair of Chinese Gold 'Brocade Balls' Earrings, Erhuan, Yuan-Ming Dynasty
明 金繡球耳環一對
明 金繡球耳環一對
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644)
Each earring is comprised of two round brocade balls with chased details, the top of the smaller and the base of the larger decorated with flower heads, all surmounted by an s-shape hook.
Note:
A similar Ming dynasty pair, see YANG, Boda, Zhongguo Jinyin Boli Falangqi Quanji, volume 1, Shijiazhuang: Hebei Fine Art Press, 2004, page 125, fig 234.
Four similar pairs, see Lin Yeqiang, Celestial Creations, Art of the Chinese Goldsmith, The Cheng Xun Tang Collection II, Art Museum, Institute of China Studies, The Chinese University of Hongkong, 2007, page 450-453, G58.
類似明代耳環參見楊伯達主編《中國金銀玻璃琺瑯彩全集》第三卷,河北美術出版社2004年出版,第125頁,圖234。
林業強主編《寶蘊迎祥:承訓堂藏金》,2007年香港中文大學中國文化研究所文物館,第450-453頁G58.
Height 1 5/8 in., 4.3 cm.
Property from the RenLu Collection, Los Angeles, California.
This lot is located in New York.