A VERY RARE PARCEL-GILT SILVER BOX AND COVER TANG DYNASTY
delicately fashioned in a six-lobed form, the domed cover finely decorated to the top in repoussé and parcel-gilt with a ferocious lion grasping in its mouth and powerful foreclaws a fallen deer, the box similarly decorated to the underside with a lion pouncing on a deer (2)
Diameter 2 1/4 in., 5.8 cm
Provenance:
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 9th January 1964.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
View it on
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
delicately fashioned in a six-lobed form, the domed cover finely decorated to the top in repoussé and parcel-gilt with a ferocious lion grasping in its mouth and powerful foreclaws a fallen deer, the box similarly decorated to the underside with a lion pouncing on a deer (2)
Diameter 2 1/4 in., 5.8 cm
Provenance:
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York, 9th January 1964.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Sale price
Estimate
Time, Location
Auction House
