Title
A gilt-silver flower-shaped cup
Year/Period
Liao-Northern Song dynasty, 10th-11th century
Region
China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: H:5 x W:9
Accession No.
2012-00580
Collection of
This gilt-silver bowl is in the form of a large open flowerhead, decorated with lush overlapping petals in varied relief around the exterior. The rippling surface of the petals is finely incised with a dense pattern of striations rising to incised clusters of very thin lines and tiny circles imitating the filaments and anthers below the scalloped lip of the everted mouth.
