World Silver & Bronze
Lot 3191 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) World Silver & Bronze
Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $260
CHINA, Late Yuan - early Ming nasty (c.1300 - 1644), silver kidney shaped sycee ingot, five tael sycee 'Hua Yin' 56.6mm (230 grams) similar to type Guangdong Province square trough ingot, (cf.Cribb 708-709 [Pl.57-58] for similar size and type but different characters). Very fine and rare.
According to the seller of this piece, it was part of a hoard of 20-30 pieces of similarly shaped sycee excavated in Yunnan. The weight varied from a few taels to 20 taels. Only 3 of them were inscribed, but the inscriptions are no longer traceable, since the person who excavated them sold them before many people had a chance to view them. Cribb records several examples of similar types to above piece with additional characters.
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