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Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines

Footed Platter with Design of Mythical Beasts amid Grapevines

700s

Did You Know?

The footed tray, a foreign shape, is decorated with fantastic creatures frolicking among grapevines, a motif borrowed from Roman art.

Description

Precious Sassanian and Central Asian metalwork had been imported to China as early as the 4th and 5th centuries as a result of wars and prosperous trade along the Silk Road. With the influx of foreign metalworkers to cosmopolitan Tang China, the techniques of sheet metalworking were introduced to the Chinese. This silver vessel demonstrates the effects of such east-west exchanges along the Silk Road. Its decoration with intricate gilt, incised and chased designs against a ring-punched ground is of a particularly high standard.
  • David David-Weill [1871–1952], Paris, France
    ?–1972
    (Spink & Son, Ltd., London, England, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1972–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Gyllensvärd, Bo. "T'ang, Gold and Silver," Bulletin, Östasiatiska samlingarna (Stockholm, Sweden) no. 29 (1957). figs. 58 J & K, 781, 80q
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 333 archive.org
    Neils, Jenifer. “The Twain Shall Meet.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 72, no. 6, 1985, pp. 326–359. Reproduced: p. 345, fig. 36 www.jstor.org
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    The Twain Shall Meet. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 30, 1985-January 5, 1986).
    Chinese, Gold and Silver from the T'ang Dynasty from American Collections. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (November 3, 1984-January 6, 1984); Cooper Hewitt, New York, NY (February 5-April 21, 1985)
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